Chapter 154: Poison Formula, Combat Ranking First

January 14th.

Li Fei went to the classroom where Mo Yizhou was as usual early in the morning.

"Teacher Mo."

Li Fei walked into the classroom and greeted Mo Yizhou.

"Come and see!"

Seeing Li Fei come, Mo Yizhou beckoned to him very urgently.

After Li Fei walked closer, he pointed to several thick books placed on the table:

"I have already marked all these prescriptions according to the way you said."

Li Fei looked at the thick books on the table and asked in surprise:

"How many prescriptions are there?"

"A total of more than two hundred, half of which I researched myself, and the other half I collected."

Mo Yizhou said somewhat proudly.

"Teacher Mo is truly a master!"

Li Fei said to Mo Yizhou with admiration.

These books were all prescriptions for poison, more than two hundred in total.

People like the leader of the 'Wolf Pack' researched poison for more than ten years to research a Nether Spring Poison, while Mo Yizhou researched more than a hundred different poisons himself!

This was indeed worthy of the evaluation of a master.

"Haha."

A smile appeared on Mo Yizhou's face, and then he sighed:

"It's a pity that poison is ultimately just a small path and is not recognized by the world."

"It's just the prejudice of the world."

Li Fei said calmly.

"Come, see if you can summarize the so-called poison formula you mentioned?"

Mo Yizhou pointed to the books on the table and asked.

"Alright."

Li Fei picked up a book and opened it to read.

He didn't learn traditional Chinese medicine in his previous life and didn't understand pharmacology, but he was a science student, and his grades were good.

During the time he learned poison from Mo Yizhou, he discovered that the pharmacology of this world was not configured according to the monarch, minister, assistant, and envoy, but was somewhat similar to chemistry in his previous life.

This made Li Fei have the idea of wanting to summarize a set of 'chemical formulas', which was the 'poison formula' he told Mo Yizhou.

"Let's find the catalyst first."

Li Fei said to Mo Yizhou.

"What is... a catalyst?"

Mo Yizhou showed a puzzled expression.

"It's something that can speed up a chemical reaction."

"Chemical reaction?"

"Teacher Mo, look, for example, this, Bitter Yellow Grass and Mogan Leaf paired together will produce toxicity, but the onset time of this toxicity is very, very slow. Even if an ordinary person accidentally eats these two things, there won't be any big problems. But if Yin Stone Powder is added to these two herbs, the toxicity will break out immediately! So this Yin Stone Powder might be a kind of catalyst."

Li Fei pointed to a prescription in the book and gave Mo Yizhou an example.

Mo Yizhou was thoughtful: "Are you trying to find something similar to Yin Stone Powder to see if it can catalyze other drugs?"

"Exactly."

Li Fei nodded.

He had previously asked Mo Yizhou to mark the ingredients and medicinal properties of various drugs on these prescriptions, which made it convenient for him to find patterns and find the various 'elements' belonging to this world.

Next, the two began to study the prescriptions recorded in the books together. Li Fei provided ideas, and Mo Yizhou used his rich experience to perfect Li Fei's ideas.

The two, one responsible for theory and one responsible for practice.

Time passed bit by bit, and more than three hours later, the two had initially summarized dozens of drug 'elements' and summarized several usable 'poison formulas'.

Mo Yizhou, a poison master, naturally also summarizes medicinal properties and pharmacology. These several poison formulas summarized were not much different from the pharmacology he had summarized himself before, but he knew very well that there was an essential difference between the two!

This kind of 'poison formula' proposed by Li Fei summarizes medicinal properties from the most subtle perspective, restores the origin of the drug, and if it were in the Taoist way of speaking, it would be finding that 'one', which can pass through ten thousand methods with one method!

"This method of yours can really work!"

Mo Yizhou was so excited that his face was a bit red, "Continuing along this path, the poison pharmacology of the future, no! Not just poison pharmacology, the pharmacology of the future will undergo earth-shaking changes! You have discovered a broad road that no one has ever walked before!"

Li Fei could understand Mo Yizhou's excitement, but he was not interested in becoming the 'Mendeleev' of this world. (Note 1)

The reason he provided his ideas to Mo Yizhou was just to learn poison better and configure the poison he wanted.

"If this path can really be walked through, the teacher will be the most important contributor; I just provided some ideas."

Li Fei said.

Without Mo Yizhou's rich experience and the many prescriptions he summarized, Li Fei's theories and ideas could only be castles in the air.

"No, the most important thing is still your ideas. Without you, I have studied pharmacology for decades and have never thought of these things."

Mo Yizhou shook his head, "If I write a book in the future, your name must be written as the first author!" 【

Li Fei laughed: "Let's talk about the future in the future; the content we've summarized so far isn't enough to write a book yet."

"Right, it's not enough, we must continue!"

Mo Yizhou said this as he prepared to dive back into his research.

"Teacher Mo, let's stop here for today; this student has other things to do."

Li Fei couldn't afford to spend his entire day on this.

"Fine, go ahead, remember to be on time tomorrow."

Mo Yizhou waved at Li Fei, then buried his head back into his research.

Li Fei turned and walked out of the classroom, heading first to the cafeteria for lunch.

At two in the afternoon, he walked into a sports field on time, prepared to attend Wen Ke's "Exploration of the Geng Metal Mindset."

Of the three courses offered by the three professors, only the first day was scheduled for the same day; after that, they were staggered, with only two sessions per week.

The class Li Fei attended a few days ago had completely overturned his perception of Professor Wen Ke.

At the time, he had been completely influenced by Wen Ke's extraordinary ability, and coupled with the Life-Killing Pill he had taken, he lost his reason and fell into a lust for slaughter.

By the time he regained consciousness, he felt as if he had been run over by ten large trucks in turns; his whole body felt like it was falling apart!

The other dozen or so students in the class were much the same, lying sprawled across the sports field, all having been knocked down by Wen Ke.

After the battle ended, Wen Ke put her black-rimmed glasses back on, regaining her gentle temperament, and told everyone to go back and get some good rest, and that they would continue in the next class.

Now, Li Fei had come for Wen Ke's second class.

Just like last time, the group of students first took their elixirs, and then, provoked by Wen Ke's extraordinary ability, they completely fell into a "berserk" state.

Li Fei was once again specifically targeted by Wen Ke.

However, this time, he finally regained a sliver of reason during the latter half of their exchange, though he still couldn't remain completely clear-headed.

It was similar to a half-drunk, half-sober state; he knew what he should be doing, but it was very difficult to precisely control his own body.

After being knocked down by Wen Ke again, Li Fei finished the class.

Although he had only attended twice, he felt that Wen Ke's teaching method was useful; at the very least, it gave him hope of grasping the Heart of Slaughter.

Even for a genius like Wang Fengqing, she had been stuck at the early stage of Qi Transformation for over seven months, and under normal circumstances, there were plenty of people who got stuck at this step for seven or eight years, or even failed to break through for their entire lives.

From a Martial Master to a Force-Refining Martial Master, and thus becoming qualified to be an official Martial Master of the imperial court—this step was indeed extremely difficult to take!

Now that Li Fei had only just broken through to the early stage of Qi Transformation less than three months ago, he wasn't in a hurry to break through his realm; he felt that after attending a few more of Wen Ke's classes, he should be able to find the opportunity to do so.

After resting for more than two hours, Li Fei walked into the arena.

In one week, he had already won eight consecutive matches in the arena, earning 40 points, bringing his current total to 77 points, and he had already climbed onto the Martial Master Combat Power Ranking, ranked ninth.

Today, he walked into the arena again, prepared for another battle.

Without using the Ten Thousand Blood Bead, Li Fei still found it quite challenging to spar with these genius students of the Martial University.

Previously, when dealing with Body-Breaking stage martial artists, his advantage was obvious, but now, sparring with Qi Transformation stage Martial Masters, winning wasn't so easy.

Sign up, wait.

Ten-plus minutes later, Li Fei's number was called.

At the same time, another person in the preparation hall stood up.

Li Fei turned his head to look at the other person—it was Cao Yiqing!

"What a coincidence, I didn't expect to run into a junior so soon."

Cao Yiqing said to Li Fei with a smile.

The two of them had attended Wei Zhiquan's "Detailed Explanation of True Qi" twice together, so they were acquaintances.

"It is an honor to meet you, senior."

Li Fei nodded calmly at Cao Yiqing.

Afterward, the two of them walked out of the preparation hall together.

The next second, the preparation hall erupted.

The number one on the Martial Master Combat Power Ranking VS the legendary newcomer!

For duels at the Martial Master stage, as long as the point difference is within 50 points, they can be matched; currently, Cao Yiqing, who is first on the Martial Master Combat Power Ranking, has 123 points, and Li Fei has 77 points, so the two of them could just be matched.

The two walked into the competition venue and entered a room to put on their Level 3 protective suits.

By the time the two had each selected their weapons and walked onto the competition field, quite a few people were already sitting in the surrounding stands.

Everyone had come after hearing the news.

Previously, Li Fei had already achieved an eight-match winning streak in Martial Master-level duels, once again displaying an unstoppable momentum.

However, he hadn't won easily in his previous matches, which gave others hope of defeating him.

Now that Li Fei was directly sparring with Cao Yiqing, who was first on the Martial Master ranking, the outcome between the two would decide many things.

Would Li Fei's terrifying winning streak end here?

Or could he still maintain an invincible posture even at the Martial Master stage?

"Begin!"

The person acting as the referee was still that Supervisor Zheng.

Sparring between students at the Martial Master stage requires a Force-Refining Martial Master to act as referee to ensure the safety of the students.

As Supervisor Zheng's voice fell, Li Fei and Cao Yiqing rushed forward almost simultaneously.

The weapon Cao Yiqing used was relatively niche: a pair of twin maces.

These iron maces were 1.2 meters long, and each one weighed over 100 jin!

If Cao Yiqing struck with his full strength at close range, the impact would be greater than that of a rifle bullet; let alone a Level 3 protective suit, even a Level 4 one couldn't block it.

Li Fei entered the "Tyrant Body" state at the first opportunity, his physique expanding, making the protective suit he was wearing stretch tight.

Clang—

Sparks flew as Li Fei swung his saber, colliding with Cao Yiqing's iron maces.

The dark golden saber light and the crimson-red aura shone brilliantly against each other.

What Cao Yiqing had cultivated was C-Fire True Qi, possessing the most extreme yang-strength; the scorching True Qi lingered on the iron maces, heating them until they were glowing red.

He used one mace to knock Li Fei's steel saber aside, his fierce strength directly breaking Li Fei's Rolling Thunder Style!

Afterward, he used the other iron mace to point at Li Fei from a distance.

The next second, a flying needle condensed from flames shot out, flying toward Li Fei.

Cao Yiqing's implant was a Grade 2 medium fire-attribute implant, "Fierce Thorn," which possessed two extraordinary abilities: one was the relatively common strength explosion, and the other was flame projection.

After breaking through to the Qi Transformation stage, Cao Yiqing combined "Flame Projection" with C-Fire True Qi, practicing it into his current "Flame Flying Needle":

Fusing C-Fire True Qi and flames together, highly compressing and condensing them, and finally projecting them out.

The speed of the Flame Flying Needle was extremely fast, comparable to a fired crossbow bolt; within ten meters, its speed was only slightly slower than a handgun bullet!

Swish—

The Flame Flying Needle grazed past Li Fei's left shoulder, the scorching aura burning a hole in the clothes on Li Fei's left shoulder.

Just as Li Fei took a step to the side to dodge this Flame Flying Needle, the twin maces in Cao Yiqing's hands collided violently.

Bang—

The sound was like a great bell, resounding throughout the entire competition venue.

Dozens of Flame Flying Needles burst forth from the twin maces in Cao Yiqing's hands, splashing toward Li Fei!

Cao Yiqing naturally knew that Li Fei possessed the "Danger Perception" ability, so his first Flame Flying Needle was only to force Li Fei to move, while the subsequent ones were the killing blow.

Before Cao Yiqing used his killing blow, Li Fei had already brandished the steel saber in his hand, the dark golden saber light laying out a "curtain" in front of him while he dodged to the side.

But the number of Flame Flying Needles was too great; Li Fei only had time to swing his saber to split the needles shooting toward his face, and while he dodged a portion, he was still struck by four Flame Flying Needles on the left side of his body.

The yang-strong and overbearing C-Fire True Qi, carrying a scorching high temperature, pierced through the Level 3 protective suit on Li Fei's body!

White smoke rose from Li Fei's body; even the defensive power of the "Tyrant Body" couldn't completely block Cao Yiqing's Flame Flying Needles.

After landing a hit, Cao Yiqing's legs suddenly expanded, and he stepped heavily on the ground, creating a pit.

Dust flew as Cao Yiqing, carrying a series of afterimages, rushed toward Li Fei at an extremely fast speed; at the same time, the muscles in his arms expanded, and he swung the iron maces in his hands toward Li Fei with berserk strength.

The first extraordinary ability of "Fierce Thorn" is strength explosion, which, coupled with the blessing of the extremely yang-strong C-Fire True Qi, gave Cao Yiqing an explosive power comparable to a Force-Refining Martial Master!

This world contains some Martial Masters capable of cross-realm combat, and Cao Yiqing, as the number one on the Martial University Martial Master Combat Power Ranking, was undoubtedly such a person.

The two iron maces drew two long white marks in the air, as if fighter jets had streaked across the sky, the wild and fierce wind blowing up the dust on the ground—

Dust filled the sky!

With such momentum, even if a car traveling at high speed collided with Cao Yiqing, it would only be the car that was smashed to pieces.

Before Cao Yiqing rushed forward, Li Fei had already swung a saber at him, seven consecutive dark golden saber lights like layers of waves, overlapping as they slashed toward Cao Yiqing.

Seven-Fold Waves!

Li Fei hadn't been attending classes for nothing these past few days; his progress was also very fast. Previously, he could at most use "Five-Fold Waves," but now he could already use "Seven-Fold Waves."

The overlapping saber lights were like "iron" that had been tempered; although it hadn't reached the point of "hundred-refinings into steel," it already possessed a bit of the momentum of force, and coupled with the extreme sharpness of Geng Metal True Qi, even if it collided with real force, it could slash it open!

Cao Yiqing used his twin maces to smash toward the saber lights; the fire-red C-Fire True Qi was instantly cut open, two deep saber marks were slashed into the iron maces, and his momentum was hindered.

Li Fei took the opportunity to shift to Cao Yiqing's side, slashing again with another "Seven-Fold Waves."

Cao Yiqing exerted force to dodge, not daring to block head-on with his iron maces again.

Li Fei's Geng Metal True Qi was extremely sharp, and it was slashed out in the manner of overlapping waves; even if the iron maces in his hands were of decent quality, they might be slashed in two if he blocked a few more times.

Once he lost his weapons, he would be defeated.

Bang—

Cao Yiqing collided the two iron maces in his hands together again, exploding a patch of Flame Flying Needles.

Li Fei dodged while swinging his saber to block.

Cao Yiqing didn't stop his footsteps, chasing after the dodging Li Fei, the iron maces in his hands colliding again and again.

On the competition field, hundreds of Flame Flying Needles shot everywhere, like a grand display of fireworks!

Note 1: Mendeleev, who summarized the "Periodic Table of Elements," is one of the founders of the discipline of chemistry.

PS: There is one more chapter to be updated later.

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