Potion Maniac

After the sparring session, Lan Mengqin and Dong Qianqiu had a rough idea of Chen Ming's strength and were both convinced of his skill.

After all, he had easily soloed both of them without even really using his martial soul, maintaining such a calm and collected demeanor that it was clear to anyone they were destined to lose.

However, this was mainly because their current soul skills were too monotonous; Lan Mengqin lacked any large-scale area-of-effect soul skills for the time being and could only conjure ice cones, ice spikes, and the like.

Dong Qianqiu was much the same, as her first soul skill was Ice Element Control, making her attacks feel quite repetitive.

But once they obtained powerful second soul skills, they should be able to narrow the gap. Currently, Lan Mengqin was at level 17 and Dong Qianqiu was at level 15; their progress over the two months since school started was truly terrifying.

Chen Ming was also at level 16, all of which had been earned by grinding zombies, skeletons, and the like. After the four of them chatted for a while, the lunch break quickly passed, and everyone returned to class.

Di Qiu'er had been tucked away inside a Pokeball; since the golden tabby cat was still feeling sleepy, it was better for her to just sleep through the afternoon.

The afternoon class was physical education. As Chen Ming arrived at his classroom, he noticed everyone looking at him with strange expressions.

What was going on? What were these looks? Just as he was feeling puzzled, his roommates, who had been out roaming for half the day, returned.

"Old Chen! How could you quietly hook up with three girls!"

Before he could even get close, Feng Rulang's shout rang out. Hearing this, Chen Ming rubbed his forehead. No way... were these brats really going to make a big deal out of this?

"Don't talk nonsense. That was my sister and her classmate. My sister brought a friend over, so it's only natural for me to host them!"

"Sister?"

"Old Chen, which one is your sister?"

Hearing this, the three of them paused for a moment before asking which one was the sister. Chen Ming waved his hand and said:

"The one with silver hair and purple eyes is my sister, you hear me!"

Chen Ming shouted this out, ensuring that the guys who were looking at him as if they wanted to kill him heard every word. In an instant, the expressions of all the boys changed.

"Brother! Brother Chen! From now on, you are my own brother!"

"Old Chen, why didn't you tell us you had a sister?"

"That's not cool! Actually, I think Old Chen isn't half bad."

The three roommates surrounded Chen Ming, acting incredibly attentive. In particular, Feng Rulang's last comment caused everyone to fix their gazes on him.

"Get lost! And you lot! If you dare touch my sister, I'll chop you up myself!"

Chen Ming kicked Feng Rulang flying and then pulled out his legendary golden sword, radiating killing intent, which immediately made everyone behave.

However, in the hearts of the boys in Class Nine, Chen Ming's status had skyrocketed. Huo Tian coughed a few times and said:

"Ahem, Old Chen, the guys from Class One seem to be preparing to fight you to the death."

Huo Tian pulled out his phone and scrolled through a few posts, quickly finding one that featured a photo of Chen Ming surrounded by the three girls.

Several people from Class One were commenting below that they were going to block the school gate specifically to intercept Chen Ming. Hearing this, he chuckled lightly.

"I'm not leaving the school, so it's useless for them to block it."

"...Old Chen, that's not the point! They're out to get you. I feel like you need your brother's help."

Huo Tian patted his own chest, indicating he could help, but he was frantically signaling with his eyes, as if he wanted to show off in front of Chen Ming.

"What's there to fear? If they come, I'll take them down one by one."

"Old Chen, what if the entire Class One comes over? That's over sixty people!"

Lei Yuan was also very worried. With over sixty people, they could drown him just by spitting on him.

"That would indeed be a bit troublesome... sixty-plus people... I need to prepare more things."

Chen Ming's eyes darkened slightly. If the other side really came at him in full force, he couldn't kill them and would have to control his strength, which was a hassle.

But he quickly thought of a solution: he could just make a few poison potions and toss them into the crowd. Poison potions wouldn't kill anyone, but they would be pure torture.

He would also prepare some weakness potions, and then drink a speed potion and a jumping potion himself—one dose of poison would take out a whole group.

"Old Chen... your expression is a bit scary..."

Huo Tian noticed Chen Ming's increasingly twisted smile, as if he were imagining how to torture the incoming enemies.

"It's fine, let them come. Even if there are thousands of enemy troops, I alone am enough!"

Chen Ming crossed his arms, his entire being radiating confidence. His three roommates wanted to say something but held back, ultimately saying nothing.

Since he was so confident, he must have some way to deal with the people from Class One.

Soon, it was time for the physical education break, and Chen Ming took out his Brewing Stand to start concocting potions.

"Add ingredients, add more! Not enough, add more!"

The smile on Chen Ming's face grew increasingly twisted as he pulled out nether wart and fermented spider eyes, stuffing them into the stand.

A weakness potion, a level two weakness potion, and then Chen Ming forcibly pushed it to a level three weakness potion. At the same time, a mod finished loading.

[Better Potions Mod loaded successfully]

This mod was an expansion pack for potion effects, allowing Chen Ming to craft a wider variety of potions and higher-level ones.

A level three weakness potion would leave even a Soul Elder like Di Qiu'er completely powerless; that was more than enough!

"What is Old Chen researching?"

"I don't know... but just looking at that pitch-black stuff, I know it's definitely nothing good."

"I feel like Chen Ming seems even more evil than an Evil Soul Master..."

The three roommates watched Chen Ming in this state, all feeling a bit fearful, terrified that he might end up taking them down along with his target.

The three of them watched helplessly as Chen Ming concocted pitch-black potions, murky green toxic potions, and ash-gray potions.

Chen Ming had prepared nine bottles of every potion, and fortunately, he had installed a Backpack Mod and an Accessory Slot Mod in advance, with the backpack hidden within the accessory slots.

Soon, class ended, and Chen Ming packed away his potions and headed to the cafeteria to eat, followed by his roommates.

Inside the cafeteria, Chen Ming felt many malicious gazes directed at him, and he also ran into Lan Mengqin and Dong Qianqiu.

"Big bad guy, you're here to eat too? Where's your little sister?"

Lan Mengqin carried her tray and sat down across from Chen Ming, with Dong Qianqiu sitting down beside her, both curious about where Di Qiu'er had gone.

"She had some business and went home; she's probably taking a nap. That girl just sleeps whenever she's full and eats whenever she wakes up."

Hearing this, Chen Ming replied nonchalantly, while Huo Tian, Lei Yuan, and Feng Rulang beside him felt the malicious stares and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

At the same time, Chen Ming introduced his roommates, and both sides got to know each other briefly.

After dinner, Lan Mengqin and Dong Qianqiu left quickly, and not long after Chen Ming walked out of the cafeteria, someone blocked his path.

Chen Ming didn't even glance at the person, simply knocking them aside as he walked past; with such a large playground, if they chose to walk right in front of him instead of anywhere else, they were just asking to be bumped into.

ps: The fourth update for February 24th, totaling 8,000 words; the other book also has 8,000 words, making it 16,000 words in total.

ps: Good news, this book has finally been signed, it really wasn't easy. I'll start by casting a monthly vote for myself first.