Withering Fire Pill

"Is three years too long, so we should seize every minute and second?"

Li Fei's words stunned Hao Yi. Then, this Special Grade Instructor laughed heartily, a rare occurrence:

"Hahahaha!"

After laughing, he looked at Li Fei with admiration:

"What a 'seize every minute and second'! It's rare to see such ambition in you. Go ahead and try it; your teacher will fully support you!"

Li Fei bowed to Hao Yi: "Thank you, teacher!"

Then, he bid farewell to Hao Yi and headed straight for the Materials Building.

"Sister Zhao, do you have Withering Fire Pills?"

Li Fei asked the materials manager politely.

Not just anyone can buy things at the Materials Building; only Rank A Students are qualified. Moreover, some items require the signature of a Special Grade Instructor to purchase.

Li Fei had been coming here frequently recently, so the managers at the Materials Building already recognized him as a student of Special Grade Instructor Hao Yi.

Li Fei had a proper appearance, looking like a good kid. He was polite and had a sweet tongue, so the managers here had a good impression of him.

"Wait a moment, I'll check for you."

Sister Zhao said to Li Fei with a smile.

Soon, she found it in a register: "Withering Fire Pills, right? Yes, 58 yuan per bottle, ten pills in a bottle."

"Please give me a bottle, thank you."

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

Soon, he got a bottle of Withering Fire Pills.

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

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

A dozen seconds later, his entire body began to feel hot, and he also experienced a strong sense of hunger.

Li Fei knew this was a signal that the Implant in his body was 'hungry,' so he immediately took an Embryo Nurturing Pill and began practicing the Heavenly Gang One Qi Stance.

Half an hour later, Li Fei stopped.

Under normal circumstances, the Implant in his body should have stabilized, and he could apply Golden Kui Balm. But at this moment, he still felt hungry, and he hadn't sweated.

For the Steel Armor Implant, sweating is a form of 'excretion.' Not sweating meant the Steel Armor hadn't 'eaten' enough.

"It really works."

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

This time, it lasted more than forty minutes before he was drenched in sweat, and the feeling of hunger completely disappeared.

Wiping away the sweat, he took out the Golden Kui Balm and began to apply it. After applying it, he sat quietly and used a breathing technique to accelerate the skin's absorption of the balm.

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

So Li Fei took out the Golden Kui Balm again and applied it once more. After a series of experiments, Li Fei found that after taking the Withering Fire Pill, the Implant's absorption of Embryo Nurturing Stage medicine increased by more than double compared to normal.

If he could take the medicine and cultivate like this every day, his Embryo Nurturing Stage time would be shortened by more than half! Li Fei looked at the Myriad Blood Bead in his body:

[Level: 3, 79%
Blood Soul: 10 + 17%]

He had used up more than 3 Blood Souls the day he absorbed the Steel Armor Implant. He had been cultivating intensely for the next two days, so the Blood Souls had not recovered to 16.

Practicing the Heavenly Gang Overlord 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 the Withering Fire Pill, the damage caused by the Implant and the medicine doubled, and the Withering Fire Pill itself would cause some damage, adding up to about 1 Blood Soul.

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

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

Li Fei thought to himself.

Although cultivating like this would damage a lot of Blood Souls every day, he would also absorb more energy. As long as the Myriad Blood Bead leveled up again, the daily recovery rate of Blood Souls should exceed the consumption rate.

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

Li Fei sighed.

Li Lei initially gave him 200 yuan, and he later earned 600 yuan from the graduation exam, but since entering the Military Academy, Li Fei had already spent more than seven hundred.

He needed to speed up his cultivation, and the elixirs he consumed were several times more than others, so the remaining money wouldn't last long, not even enough to buy the medicine for the next Embryo Nurturing Stage.

Asking Li Lei for money was unrealistic; if he had that kind of financial strength, he could have let Li Fei go directly to college.

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

Li Fei murmured.

According to the plots of transmigration novels he had read in his previous life, as a transmigrator, he could make a fortune by making a few inventions.

But as he understood this world more and more, Li Fei basically gave up on this idea.

In the Great Blue Dynasty, even setting up a street stall would be charged protection fees, and even if he really found a new way to make money, he would soon be eaten clean. If he was lucky, he would end up as a worker, making money for others.

If he was unlucky, he would lose his life! In this era, to get ahead, you either had to have a background or strength, otherwise you would always be a nobody.

So if Li Fei wanted to make big money, he had to become a powerful Martial Warrior first.

However, to become a powerful Martial Warrior, he had to have money first. "I wonder if fighting in underground boxing matches would work?"

Li Fei could only think of this method for the time being.

Fighting more could absorb energy, speed up the upgrade of the Myriad Blood Bead, and make money, which could be considered killing two birds with one stone.

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

July 22nd.

On this day, Li Fei didn't go to the Military Academy to cultivate, but accompanied Li Tianyu to Xing City Vocational School.

Today was the university entrance exam day! Because Xing City belonged to Datong Prefecture, Wu'an University came to Xing City Vocational School to recruit students.

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

Chen Lixin and Li Tianyu were both taking the entrance exams today, but one was a written test and the other was a martial test.

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

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

Li Tianyu looked at Chen Lixin speechlessly.

Chen Lixin pushed up his glasses: "It shows that I'm confident."

His written test scores had always been the first, and it could be said that he was almost certain to enter the business school of Wu'an University.

Before the Mingxin Reform, the Great Blue Dynasty selected scholars through imperial examinations. After the Mingxin Reform, it was changed to selecting scholars from twelve universities.

People like Chen Lixin who studied 'literature' could basically become court officials as long as they graduated from university smoothly.

As for those who were admitted to the Conflict Mitigation Department of the university, after graduation, they either held important positions in various places or joined the army directly as officers.

It could be said that as long as one was admitted to the twelve universities, their life would be considered to have entered a new world! "How is it, are you confident?"

Chen Lixin asked Li Tianyu.

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

"You two, 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 did not have credentials, so he could not enter the gate of the vocational school.

"Okay, wait for our good news."

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

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

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