Chapter 23: Withered Fire Pill

"Three years is too long, seize the day?"

Li Fei's words stunned Hao Yi, and then this special-grade lecturer laughed extremely rarely:

"Hahahahahahaha!"

After he laughed, he looked at Li Fei with appreciative eyes:

"What a 'seize the day'! It's rare for you to have such spirit, then go and try it, the teacher will fully support you!"

Li Fei bowed to Hao Yi:

"Thank you, Teacher!"

Afterward, he said goodbye to Hao Yi and walked directly toward the material building.

"Sister Zhao, may I ask if you have Withered Fire Pill?"

Li Fei asked the material administrator very politely.

Not just anyone could come here to buy things; one had to be an A-grade student, and some things also required the signature of a special-grade lecturer to be bought.

Li Fei had come here often during this period, and the administrators here had already recognized him, knowing that he was a student of special-grade lecturer Hao Yi.

Li Fei looked upright, looked like a good child, was polite, and had a sweet mouth, so the administrators here all had a good impression of him.

"Wait a moment, I'll help you find it."

Sister Zhao said to Li Fei with a smile.

Soon, she found it in a roster:

"Withered Fire Pill, right? Yes, 58 yuan a bottle, ten pills in a bottle."

"Please get me a bottle, thank you."

Li Fei counted a stack of banknotes and handed them over.

Soon, he got a bottle of Withered Fire Pill.

After putting the pills away, Li Fei ran back home.

After dinner, he returned to his room, took out a Withered Fire Pill, and took it.

Ten seconds later, the skin all over his body began to heat up, and he also felt a strong sense of hunger.

Li Fei knew this was the signal that the implant in his body was 'thirsty', so he immediately took an 'Embryo-Nurturing Pill' and began to practice the Heavenly Gang One-Qi Stake.

Half an hour later, Li Fei stopped.

Under normal circumstances, the implant in his body should have stabilized and he could apply 'Jin Kui Ointment', but at this time he still felt hungry, and there was no sweat on his body.

For the steel armor implant, sweating is a kind of 'excretion' behavior; not sweating means the steel armor hasn't 'eaten enough'.

"Sure enough, it has an effect."

Li Fei took another 'Embryo-Nurturing Pill' and continued to practice the Heavenly Gang One-Qi Stake.

This lasted for more than forty minutes before he was sweating profusely, and the hunger completely disappeared.

Wiping away the sweat, he took out 'Jin Kui Ointment' and began to apply it, and after applying it, he sat quietly and employed the breathing technique to accelerate the skin's absorption of the ointment.

This time it took less than five minutes for all the ointment on his body to be absorbed.

So Li Fei took out Jin Kui Ointment and applied it again...

After a trial, Li Fei discovered that after taking Withered Fire Pill, the absorption of embryo-nurturing stage medicine by the implant increased by more than double compared to the normal state.

If he could take medicine and practice like this every day, his embryo-nurturing stage time would be shortened by more than half!

Li Fei looked at the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl in his body:

【Level: 4, 79%

Blood Soul: 10 + 17%】

He consumed more than 3 Blood Souls on the day he absorbed the steel armor implant, and practiced with high intensity for the next two days, so the Blood Soul had not returned to 16.

Practicing the Heavenly Gang Overbearing Body twice a day reduced about 1 Blood Soul, and taking embryo-nurturing stage medicine every day plus the damage caused by the implant was about 0.3 Blood Souls.

Now that he had taken Withered Fire Pill, the damage caused by the implant and medicine doubled, and the Withered Fire Pill itself also caused a certain amount of damage, adding up to almost 1 Blood Soul.

So if Li Fei wanted to maintain his current cultivation intensity, he would lose 2 Blood Souls every day, which was already more than the Blood Souls he recovered every day.

"The energy increased by 16%, it will upgrade in two more days, no problem."

Li Fei thought to himself.

Cultivating like this, although he lost a lot of Blood Souls every day, the energy he absorbed was also a lot; as long as the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl upgraded one more level, the daily recovery speed of the Blood Soul should be able to exceed the consumption speed.

"But the problem now is that there is not enough money."

Li Fei sighed.

Martial dao cultivation really costs money everywhere.

Li Lei gave him 200 yuan at the beginning, and later he earned 600 yuan from the graduation exam, but from entering the Lecture Hall until now, Li Fei had already used up more than seven hundred.

He wanted to speed up his cultivation speed, and the medicine he consumed was several times that of others, so the remaining money wouldn't last long, and it wasn't even enough to buy the medicine for the next embryo-nurturing period.

Asking Li Lei for money was unrealistic; if the other party had this economic strength, he could have completely let Li Fei go to take the university exam directly.

"Must find a way to make money."

Li Fei muttered.

According to the plot in the time-travel novels he read in his previous life, as a time-traveler, he could just invent a few things and money would roll in.

But with more and more understanding of this world, Li Fei basically gave up this idea.

In the Great Lan Dynasty, even setting up a stall on the street would be charged protection fees, and even if he really found a brand-new way to get rich, he would soon be eaten clean by others. If he was lucky, he would become a wage earner in the end, making money for others.

If he was unlucky, he would lose his life!

In this era, if you want to mix, you either have a background or strength, otherwise you will always be a small fry.

So if Li Fei wants to make big money, he must first become a powerful martial artist.

However, if he wants to become a powerful martial artist, he must first have money...

"I wonder if it's okay to fight underground boxing?"

Li Fei could only think of this method for a while.

Fighting more can absorb energy, speed up the upgrade speed of the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl, and make money, which can be considered killing two birds with one stone.

But he didn't have channels in this regard for the time being, and didn't know the situation inside, so he could only take one step at a time.

July 22nd.

On this day, Li Fei didn't go to the Lecture Hall for cultivation, but accompanied Li Tianyu to the Xingcheng Technical School.

Today was the day of the university entrance exam!

Because Xingcheng belonged to Datong Prefecture, the university coming to Xingcheng Technical School for enrollment was Wu'an University.

The two arrived early outside the gate of the technical school, waiting for Chen Lixin to arrive.

Chen Lixin and Li Tianyu both had to participate in the enrollment exam today, but one was a written exam and the other was a martial arts exam.

A few minutes later, Chen Lixin arrived on a bicycle.

"How can you be late for the enrollment exam?"

Li Tianyu looked at Chen Lixin speechlessly.

Chen Lixin pushed his glasses frame: "It shows that I am confident."

His written exam results had always been first, and it could be said that he was sure to get into the business department of Wu'an University.

Before the Mingxin Reform, the Great Lan Dynasty took scholars through the imperial examination; after the Mingxin Reform, it changed to taking scholars from twelve universities.

Like Chen Lixin, who studied 'literature', as long as he graduated from university smoothly, he could basically become an official of the imperial court.

As for those who were admitted to the Zhige Academy of the university, after graduation, they would either hold important positions in various places or enter the army and start directly as officers.

It could be said that as long as one was admitted to the twelve universities, life could be considered to have stepped into a new world!

"How about it, are you confident?"

Chen Lixin asked Li Tianyu.

Li Tianyu raised her chin: "Sister, I'm naturally no problem!"

"Both of you, come on, I'll wait for your good news outside."

Li Fei said to the two.

He didn't participate in the exam today, had no credentials, and couldn't enter the gate of the technical school.

"Okay, wait for our good news."

Li Tianyu patted Li Fei, then walked into the technical school gate with Chen Lixin.

Looking at the backs of the two, Li Fei felt calm.

He had already found his own path, so there was no need to envy others.