Jingluo Vine
"If someone suspects you of having weapons of mass destruction, you'd better actually have them!"
Zhang Xuezhou fabricated a fake, and with the collusion of many high-ranking Scarlet Alliance State, Xu Lu believed that the Scarlet Alliance State a top-tier figure.
For the Void Furnace, it is perfectly normal for the weak to side with the strong.
He also hoped to gain protection and thus secure a place for himself.
Zhang Xuezhou was filled with worry. He was handling everything very well for the time being, but if something really unusual happened, the chances of them being exposed would be extremely high.
Unfortunately, each step of the Gene Sequence requires blood serum or extracts from Ferocious Beast beasts to drive it forward. This means that even if everyone's body has been tempered by the fire seed once, it will become mottled and inferior due to the subsequent sequence driving, and will have an extremely long-term need for the Void Furnace.
He recalled some famous quotes, and could only force himself to talk and laugh.
There's always a way out; he's just taking it one day at a time.
Are you vomiting?
After some matters were discussed and resolved, Xu Lu returned to his usual docile self. He was no longer gloating over defeating Zuo Lianguang, and the subtle changes in his mindset subsided.
He looked at Zhang Xuezhou, who was responding from time to time, and then at Zhang Xuezhou, who had drooled half a bucket of saliva. For a moment, he couldn't understand Zhang Xuezhou's behavior.
When he sniffed, Xu Lu could still smell a rather strong sour stench, which was also filled with a familiar scent.
"I tried making some medicinal liquid from the herbs under those feces. After taking it, I started spitting. Would you like to try it?" Zhang Xuezhou said, wiping his mouth after spitting out.
"The Jingluoman is a highly adaptable parasitic medicinal herb. As long as it grows from seed to maturity, digging up its roots and consuming them will allow my body to quickly adapt to this world," Xu Lu said with a sympathetic expression. "I've damaged my health over the years and haven't used it. It has adapted to the foul-smelling environment of the wild snakes' excrement, but swallowing Jingluoman that grows in feces generally won't be very effective!"
The disdain on Xu Lu's face was hard to hide.
He explained the name of the Snake Cave Medicine to Zhang Xuezhou and also explained the special characteristics of this medicinal material.
Luo Man is a highly adaptable medicinal herb, and it can take different forms depending on where it grows.
The greatest effect of this medicinal herb is not to increase one's strength, but rather to give one adaptability.
If you find a wild basil plant in a hot environment, eating it can help your body adapt to the heat.
For example, the same applies to environments such as cold, ice, and even fire. As long as the user can adapt to and survive through the Rom, the user can adapt to the environment the Rom can survive in after consuming it.
Xu Lu thought about the environment of the snake cave and realized that he wouldn't need to adapt to an area filled with filth and snake venom in the future. Adapting to such an environment wasn't a remarkable ability.
"Adaptability?"
Zhang Xuezhou believed that the greatest effect of the medicated pill was to prevent snake venom, but the medicinal properties they used focused on promoting the absorption of blood-activating agents and extracts from Ferocious Beast, while the side effects such as memory loss and mental confusion were persistent.
"This herb isn't very effective," Zhang Xuezhou said after some thought. "Our tests revealed that this herb can cause headaches, loss of reason, and even memory loss!"
"Then it might have been influenced by the Wild Serpent," Xu Lu said. "These vines have always grown beneath the Wild Serpent, or perhaps they were tainted by the Wild Serpent's excrement, thus acquiring some of the chaotic aura of the Savage Wilderness beast!"
Zhang Xuezhou had barely uttered a tentative question when Xu Lu responded swiftly.
Zhang Xuezhou's combination of the Snake Cave Secret Medicine was somewhat poor, but he did have a thorough understanding of the origins and details of the Snake Cave Secret Medicine.
"If the variegated vines grew in an area rich in fire crystals..."
"Then it is Fire Feather Grass. If it can grow in a dragon's lair, then it is Dragon Beard Grass and Dragon Bone Grass. The dragon's lair I'm talking about is the kind of true dragon god, not a sub-dragon like a chaotic creature such as a Wild Serpent. It can truly produce top-quality medicine. Taking just one can almost change one's fate. I've heard that a human once ate a Dragon Beard Grass and his body transformed into a demigod red dragon!"
"Amazing!"
Although he didn't quite understand the rules of the higher-dimensional world, Zhang Xuezhou still offered his support as expected.
He felt a little sorry that the place where the vines grew was flawed, but Zhang Xuezhou couldn't come up with a better growing location. After all, these vines grew alongside the Qinmeng Secret Stone, and the conditions were already at the limit of Zhang Xuezhou's imagination.
"If we can find some good places, can these foul-smelling vines still grow and change?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.
"As long as there is a better environment, it will gradually adapt to the new environment and survive, thus gaining adaptability to the new environment, but it will take a relatively long time," Xu Lu nodded.
"What a pity!"
Zhang Xuezhou expressed his great regret, but he still harbored a plan to go to Emperor Taizong's palace to try planting the plants.
Those vines that cannot survive can be made into an acidic medicinal solution, while those that can survive will nourish the Spiritual Qi of the Spirit Gathering Formation and continue to grow.
Zhang Xuezhou also wanted to see what effect the Scripture Vine, which adapted to growing in pure Spiritual Qi, would have, and whether it could become cleaner and more transparent.
If conditions were right, he even hoped that the vine could flower, bear fruit, and produce seeds, thus enabling the cultivation of some usable medicinal herbs in reality.
As Alchemist, Zhang Xuezhou felt that few people preferred cultivating and propagating a continuous supply of powerful medicinal herbs to their group.
"Pah!"
Zhang Xuezhou entertained Xu Lu and even brought him a specially prepared acidic solution from the laboratory, gradually dispelling Xu Lu's suspicions.
After Xu Lu politely offered a token amount of the medicine, his face became distorted and he repeatedly vomited acid.
Jingluoman is a good medicine, but Jingluoman growing in a stench is obviously a deformed fruit. After spitting out sour water, Xulu couldn't help but spit out a few mouthfuls of fire before he felt his mouth was a little cleaner.
"It's a pity that Xiao Ren took all my fire crystals, otherwise I should have been able to adjust my body to be able to breathe flames, and this medicine wouldn't have affected me at all!"
Xu Lu's seemingly unintentional remark made Zhang Xuezhou acutely aware that his precautions were not without merit.
Even if you don't say it aloud, you'll still have thoughts in your mind, and if these kinds of emotions accumulate, they will inevitably lead to potential trouble.
"The high-grade spoils we hunt in Qinmeng will be inspected before Realm Entry, and half of them need to be handed over," Zhang Xuezhou said. "The remaining 30% need to be tested by ourselves. For example, when I tested the losses caused by Luo Man, he only had about one or two-tenths of the fire crystals left!"
"Like this?"
"We need to follow the king's orders. Once he's dealt with these matters, I'll go to him and retrieve the remaining fire crystals!"
Thinking that Ren Anran had used up all seventy-two fire crystals, and that there were still a few left that weren't particularly useful, Zhang Xuezhou made some ramblings and even patted his chest to vouch for them.
Xu Lu vaguely sensed that something was amiss, but his heart was also warmed. He felt that compared to Ren Yisheng's arrangements, Zhang Xuezhou's treatment of him was truly exceptional.