Chapter 39: Withered Fire Pill

"Three years is too long; why not seize the day?"

Li Fei's words left Hao Yi stunned, and then this special-grade lecturer laughed in an extremely rare display:

"Hahahahahaha!"

After he finished laughing, he looked at Li Fei with an appreciative gaze:

"What a 'seize the day'! It is rare for you to have such spirit. Then go and try it; your teacher will support you with all his might!"

Li Fei bowed to Hao Yi:

"Many thanks, Master!"

Afterward, he bid farewell to Hao Yi and walked straight toward the supply building.

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

Li Fei asked the supply clerk very politely.

Not just anyone could come to the supply building to buy things; one had to be a Grade A student to be eligible, and some items even required the signature of a special-grade lecturer to be purchased.

Li Fei had been coming here often lately, and the clerks at the supply building had grown familiar with him, knowing he was a student of the special-grade lecturer Hao Yi.

Li Fei had a decent appearance, looked like a good kid at first glance, and was polite and sweet-talking, so the clerks here all had a very good impression of him.

"Wait a moment, let me look for you."

Sister Zhao said to Li Fei with a smile.

Soon, she found it in a register:

"Withered Fire Pills, right? We have them, 58 yuan a bottle, ten pills per bottle."

"Please get me a bottle, thank you."

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

Soon, he obtained a bottle of Withered Fire Pills.

After putting the elixir away, Li Fei jogged home.

After dinner, he returned to his room and took out one Withered Fire Pill to swallow.

A dozen seconds later, the skin all over his body began to heat up, and he developed a strong sense of hunger.

Li Fei knew this was the signal of 'thirst' from the implant in his body, so he immediately took an 'Embryo-Nurturing Pill' and began practicing the Heavenly Steel One-Qi Stance.

Half an hour later, Li Fei stopped.

Under normal circumstances, the implant in his body should have stabilized by now, and he could apply the 'Jin Kui Ointment', but at this moment, he still felt hungry, and he hadn't broken a sweat.

For a Steel Armor implant, sweating was a form of 'excretion'; not sweating meant the Steel Armor was not yet 'full'.

"It really is effective."

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

This time, it lasted for over forty minutes before he was drenched in sweat and the hunger had completely vanished.

Wiping away the sweat, he took out the 'Jin Kui Ointment' and began to apply it. After applying it, he sat still and performed 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.

Thus, Li Fei took out the Jin Kui Ointment and applied it once more.

After the experiment, Li Fei discovered that after taking the Withered Fire Pill, the implant's absorption of Embryo-Nurturing stage medicine had more than doubled 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 Bead inside his body:

【Level: 3, 79%

Blood Soul: 10 + 17%】

He had consumed over 3 Blood Souls on the day he absorbed the Steel Armor implant, and he had been practicing at high intensity for the two days since, so the Blood Souls had not recovered to 16.

Practicing the Heavenly Steel Tyrant Body twice a day reduced the Blood Souls by about 1, and the damage caused by taking Embryo-Nurturing stage medicine plus the implant was about 0. Blood Souls.

Now that he had taken the Withered Fire Pill, the damage caused by the implant and the elixir had doubled, and the Withered Fire Pill itself also caused some damage, adding up to about 1 Blood Soul.

Therefore, if Li Fei wanted to maintain this current training intensity, he would lose 2 Blood Souls every day, which was already more than the number of Blood Souls he recovered daily.

"Energy increased by 16%; I can level up in two more days, no problem."

Li Fei pondered to himself.

Practicing this way, although he lost many Blood Souls every day, he also absorbed more energy. As long as the Ten Thousand Blood Bead leveled up once more, the daily recovery speed of the Blood Souls should be able to exceed the consumption speed.

"But the problem now is, I don't have enough money."

Li Fei sighed.

Li Lei had initially given him 200 yuan, and he later earned 600 yuan from the graduation exam, but since entering the Martial Arts Hall until now, Li Fei had already spent over seven hundred.

He needed to speed up his training, and the medicine he consumed was several times that of others, so the remaining money wouldn't last long; it wasn't even enough to buy the medicine for the next Embryo-Nurturing stage.

Asking Li Lei for money was unrealistic; if the other party had that kind of financial strength, he could have just let Li Fei take the university entrance exam directly.

"I have to find a way to make money."

Li Fei muttered.

According to the plots in the transmigration novels he had read in his previous life, as a transmigrator, one could just come up with a few inventions and the money would roll in.

But as he learned more about this world, Li Fei basically gave up on this idea.

In the Great Lan Dynasty, even setting up a street stall would result in having to pay protection money. Even if one really found a brand-new path to wealth, it would quickly be picked clean by others. If one were lucky, they would end up becoming a wage earner, making money for someone else.

If one were unlucky, they would lose their life!

In this era, to get by, one either needed a background or strength; otherwise, one would always be a nobody.

Therefore, if Li Fei wanted to make big money, he had to first become a powerful martial artist.

However, to become a powerful martial artist, one had to have money first.

"I wonder if underground fighting would work?"

For a moment, this was the only method Li Fei could think of.

Fighting more could absorb energy, speed up the leveling of the Ten Thousand Blood Bead, and also earn money, which could be considered killing two birds with one stone.

But he currently had no channels for this and didn't know the situation inside, so he could only take it one step at a time.

July 22nd.

On this day, Li Fei did not go to the Martial Arts Hall to practice, but instead accompanied Li Tianyu to the Xingcheng Vocational School.

Today was the university entrance exam day!

Because Xingcheng belonged to Datong Prefecture, the university coming to Xingcheng Vocational School to recruit students was Wuan University.

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

Both Chen Lixin and Li Tianyu were taking the entrance exam today, only one was a literary exam and the other was a martial exam.

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

"How can you be late even for an entrance exam?"

Li Tianyu looked at Chen Lixin, speechless.

Chen Lixin pushed up his glasses: "It shows that I have everything under control."

His literary exam scores had always been first; getting into the business department of Wuan University could be said to be a sure thing.

Before the Mingxin Reform, the Great Lan Dynasty selected officials through the imperial examination; after the Mingxin Reform, it was changed to selecting officials from twelve universities.

For those like Chen Lixin who studied 'literature', as long as they graduated from university smoothly, they could basically become officials of the imperial court.

As for those who were admitted to the Stop-War Department of the universities, after graduation, they would either hold important positions in various places or enter the military and start directly as officers.

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

"How about it, are you confident?"

Chen Lixin asked Li Tianyu.

Li Tianyu lifted her chin: "Of course I have no problem!"

"Both of you, do your best; I'll wait outside for your good news."

Li Fei said to the two.

He was not taking the exam today and had no credentials, so he could not enter the gate of the vocational school.

"Alright, wait for our good news."

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

Watching their backs, Li Fei felt calm.

He had already found his own path and did not need to envy others.

(End of chapter)