The Cultivation World's Breaking Bad
Lu Ping felt that Little B was the correct answer.
He's Heavy Tomato User! Toxic or not, it's all just candy.
Moreover, since the Greenwood Sect dares to display its Cultivation Method, they are not afraid of people investigating.
Lu Ping chose B.
[You chose B.]
[Take one Qi-Gathering Pill first. Absorption is successful.]
[Today's Spiritual Qi absorption quota has been used up.]
[Then, you take out a Qi-Replenishing Pill. The medicinal effect enters your stomach, but your body's Spiritual Power is saturated and can no longer absorb it.]
[You circulate the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula, guiding the medicinal power with your Spiritual Power to flow into your limbs and bones.]
[You feel heat in your bones and muscles, and distending pain in your meridians.]
[Soon, fine beads of sweat appeared on your forehead, and even your robes were soaked.]
[Pill Poison is beginning to accumulate in your body.]
[ For Heavy Tomato Users, this is in effect.]
[The intense pain is making you Divine Sense somewhat disoriented.]
[Salty Fish, in effect.]
[These two S-rank Trait truly demonstrate the best after-sales service of the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula.]
[After an incense stick has burned, you open your eyes.]
[You sense a slight increase in your physical strength. Just by using Mortal-Grade Pill, your physical strength has increased by a tiny bit!]
[What about Low-Grade Pills? Or Mid-Grade Pills?]
[Put the Qi-Replenishing Pill back from the table and replace it with a Qi-Congealing Pill.]
[As soon as the Pills entered the mouth and its medicinal properties began to dissolve, the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula immediately forced the medicinal power into the muscles and bones.]
[A fine, persistent pain is coming from your bones.]
[Fifteen minutes later, you open your eyes.]
[Physical strength has increased again, this time even more than before.]
[After a moment's thought, you take out a Mid-Grade Pill Qi-Gathering Pill.]
[This is a gift from Si Wangshu; it's something that even an ordinary disciple of the Greenwood Sect might not get to touch in a whole year.]
[You swallowed the Qi-Gathering Pill and began to circulate the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula.]
This time, my muscles and bones ached for a full two hours.
[You sat there until dawn before you finally finished digesting it.]
Your physical strength has significantly increased.
[The effects of Mid-Grade Pill are more than ten times that of Low-Grade Pill.]
[But you only have three bottles in total right now.]
[Options pop up.]
[A: We invested heavily in acquiring the formula for the Qi-Gathering Pill, aiming for self-production and self-sales to reduce long-term costs.]
[B: Continue using the Qi-Gathering Pill to refine the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula, first building up the physical body.]
[C: You were jolted awake, and suddenly realized: with such powerful Mid-Grade Pills, hard cultivation is nothing but a task for oxen and horses! You immediately sent a message to Si Wangshu via an urgent flying sword: "Senior Sister, I don't want to work hard anymore! The doctor said I have a weak stomach and brittle bones, and am only fit to be a kept man! If the Si Clan is still lacking a pure yang son-in- Spirit-Urging Pill- enhancing pills by hand, or a Supreme-Grade Furnace Cauldron who can do everything from washing feet to warming the bed, I'll come to you tonight..."]
Lu Ping looked at Little B and Little C and chuckled.
He, Lu Alchemist, does he really need to be beholden to others when it comes to a mere Qi-Gathering Pill?!
Lu Ping chose A.
[You chose A.]
[The next day, you went to the internal affairs office of the Alchemy Hall.]
[Using your authority as a steward, you spent a large sum of money to purchase the recipe for the Qi Gathering Pill.]
[The Qi-Gathering Pill is a commonly used Pills in the Foundation Establishment Realm; the Pill Formula costs 800 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.]
[Zhao Li personally handled your paperwork. When he saw you pull out eight hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, his eyes lit up with envy.]
[That's eight hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones! A Deacon's annual salary is only six hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones!]
[Zhao Li, holding the Pill Formula Jade Slip, said in a sarcastic tone,]
"Deacon Lu, you seem to have plenty of Spirit Stones lately."
[You said calmly,]
"It's all thanks to the elder's kindness. After I shared the elder's burdens, the elder gave me a slightly larger subsidy."
[The Passing the Buck is now in effect.]
[Zhao Li's questioning was blocked, so he could only obediently hand over the Pill Formula Jade Slip containing the pill formula.]
"Deacon Lu is truly blessed."
[You accept the Jade Slip.]
"It's all thanks to the sect's cultivation."
[You return to Cave Abode No. 7, Earth) and begin refining elixirs day and night.]
[The Artisan Spirit is now in effect.]
[Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement, effective.]
[From one batch of pills per furnace, the process was improved to four pills per furnace. Ultimately, the cost of a single batch of Pills was reduced to only 60% of that of an ordinary Alchemist.]
[The Qi-Gathering Pill is beginning to become your own creation.]
[One month later, you swallowed a Qi-Gathering Pill and circulated the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula once more.]
[You feel the stinging pain in your muscles and bones intensifying, and your physical growth accelerating.]
[You tried a Qi-Replenishing Pill, but the effect was very poor.]
[You tried another Qi-Congealing Pill, but the effect was mediocre.]
[After a moment's thought, you finally took out a Spirit-Eroding Powder.]
[Options pop up.]
[A: Abandon the test; the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula is dangerous enough.]
[B: Using the Spirit-Eroding Powder in conjunction with the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula, test the effects of poison on body tempering.]
[C: Write a letter to Qi Cangshu, requesting the establishment of the "Alchemy Hall Poison Fitness Interest Group".]
Lu Ping looked at Little B, seemingly lost in thought.
Poison cultivation sounds a bit shady.
But Heavy Tomato Users out there.
Lu Ping understood, Little B, this is the correct answer!
Lu Ping chose B.
[You chose B.]
[You ingested the Spirit-Eroding Powder, but the poison had barely spread when it was suppressed by Heavy Tomato User.]
[The Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula suddenly trembled, and the suppressed poison was immediately guided by the Cultivation Method to permeate into the bones and flesh.]
[Your back is beaded with gray sweat, your forearms are bulging, and your bones are making a soft cracking sound.]
[After an incense stick has burned, you open your eyes, throw a punch, and feel the effect.]
[The effect of your physical enhancement is nearly half that of the Qi-Gathering Pill.]
[The Spirit-Eroding Powder is only Low-Grade Pill, while the Qi-Gathering Pill is Mid-Grade Pill.]
[You stared at the Spirit-Eroding Powder on the table, remaining silent for a long time.]
[Tonic herbs nourish the body.]
[Poison is used to train people.]
[This world has finally forced you to become the deadly poison master of the cultivation world.]
[Half a month later, you began to steadily refine the enhanced version of the Spirit-Eroding Powder.]
[In a regular lecture, you, as Deacon of the Alchemy Hall and widely recognized as "the most reliable First-Rank Alchemist in the Greenwood Sect," are given a lecture on the Qi-Replenishing Pill in the Qi-replenishing pill to newly recruited Outer Sect Disciples.]
[Dozens of new disciples were sitting in the audience.]
[One of the boys sat up straight, listened attentively, and even followed your train of thought; his notes were filled with information.]
[You see the name on his name tag: Xu Qingshi.]
[You recognize this boy; he's Number 98.]
[In the second simulation, you saved him once. Then, at the end of the third month, he exploded right next to you.]
[Now, he's sitting here alive.]
[The boy rises and bows.]
"Deacon Lu, your disciple Xu Qingshi wishes to ask why the Qi-Replenishing Pill's third-stage firing process cannot be prematurely stopped?"
[You said calmly,]
"Prematurely pressing the furnace will lock in the medicinal properties, so even if the pill is successfully made, its medicinal properties will only be barely acceptable."
"Less than 30% of the medicinal properties a cultivator can absorb after consuming it."
Xu Qingshi immediately wrote it down.
The other disciples began to whisper among themselves.
"Deacon Lu explained it in great detail."
"Deacon Zhao used to only make us memorize the articles."
The other person quickly looked towards the door.
"Keep your voice down, Deacon Zhao's men are still here."
[You quietly observe the crowd below the stage, realizing that you have become entangled with this world through cause and effect.]