After shopping, it was almost off-duty time.
Wang Zijia returned to his Talisman and Charm Area, remained idle until the exact finishing time, then casually left the warehouse through the back door, hailed a horse carriage, and returned home.
He didn't immediately do anything, after keeping his things appropriately, Wang Zijia began practicing in the courtyard.
Shortly, the nanny Wang Dan arrived punctually, prepared dinner for Wang Zijia. After he finished eating, she meticulously cleaned up.
"Young Master, I've made some dried food for you, if you get hungry at night, you can heat it up, it should be enough to fill you up alongside some dried meat," Wang Dan reminded before she left.
Apparently, she had even taken note of his casual morning conversation.
"Understood, Sister Wang," Wang Zijia replied.
Once the nanny left, Wang Zijia tidied up a bit, then closed the courtyard door, went to the study room, carried a bunch of pills, and entered the secret room.
Sitting in the secret room, Wang Zijia placed more than ten jade bottles in front of him, contemplated for a moment, and hesitantly picked up a bottle of poison, after a slight hesitation, he gulped it down.
Yes, he was planning on swallowing a pill to cultivate. However, whether to drink poison or medicine depended on the test results.
After swallowing the poison, his stomach felt slightly cool, but otherwise, he felt nothing else.
Quickly entering his Sea of Consciousness, a new weight quickly emerged with a slight shift of his mind.
Weight: Heart Palpitating Poison
Status: Lurking
Value: 0.4
Introduction: Mortal World's top poison, with the incubation period of half a month, corrodes the heart's blood vessels, once the poison manifests, the blood vessels burst causing death.
Looking at the weight slightly smaller than his little finger, he paused. Seeing the half-month incubation period, his eyes flickering, he decisively exited his Sea of Consciousness.
He picked up another bottle of poison and gulped it down.
Immediately after, he entered his Sea of Consciousness to check again, then repeated the same operation without converting it.
A moment later, pills, medicinal powder, and medicinal liquids, a total of ten bottles of poison, were all gulped down by him at once.
Weight: Newly Mixed Poison
Status: Lurking
Value: 8.1
Introduction: A peculiar mixed poison, made by mixing various top-tier deadly poisons of the Mortal World, extremely poisonous, with an incubation period of three minutes. If you want to die, you can sit quietly for three minutes.
Looking at the newly formed weight, Wang Zijia showed an expected expression.
Swallowing a single bottle of poison each, their value hovered between 0.4 and 0.5, but swallowing them together, as the mixed poison intensified, the value also rapidly increased, reaching more than eight points.
Seeing the three minutes time limit, Wang Zijia dared not delay any longer, and decisively summoned Martial Cultivation weights.
[Would you like to redeem weight?]
"Yes!"
As the mixed poison weight was converted into martial cultivation, he felt himself rapidly growing stronger again, almost doubling in power.
Weight: Martial Cultivation
Cultivation: Postnatal Elementary Level (First-class)
Status: Cultivating
Value: 18.1
Introduction: Cultivation of the "Hidden Shadow Skill", an innate grand-master high-grade method.
Immediately after, Wang Zijia was taken aback, when the mixed poison weight turned into small light spots, suddenly, a new weight was born.
Weight: Poison Resistance
Value: 1
Introduction: Because a suicidal young man has repeatedly swallowed deadly poison and managed to survive, his body has developed certain poison resistance.
Ha, a poison-resistant constitution?
Was this an unexpected gain?
Quite pleasantly surprised at the new weight, in his hesitation, he did not convert it. If he intended to continue swallowing poison in the future, this thing was not only to be kept but to be continuously increased, striving for immunity to all poisons!
In his thoughts, Wang Zijia did not stop his movements, he picked up one of the remaining two medicine bottles.
He poured out an Explosive Qi Pill, took a deep breath, and swallowed it straight down.
The pill melted immediately upon entering his mouth, transforming into a wave of violent energy that swept through his entire body. Wang Zijia felt his cultivation doubled by the power of the pill, and within his Dantian, his internal energy also became incredibly aggressive, making his meridians feel somewhat swollen.
Without delay, he came directly to the Sea of Consciousness and a new weight was birthed.
Weight: Temporary Cultivation Enhancement
Belongs to: Status buff
Value: 1
Introduction: You are a fearless, joyous youth. You can always eat anything, dare you try another one?
Wang Zijia, feeling the bursting sensation in his body, didn't dare to do as he had done before with the poison, swallowing all three together before trading, and instead directly traded it.
It left Wang Zijia in an awkward position.
There was a hollow feeling in his heart that was rather unsettling.
Wang Zijia smacked his lips, decisively taking out another pill. His body's aura rapidly surged again but disappeared just as quickly.
After swallowing three pills in quick succession, Wang Zijia was left feeling out of sorts.
Immediately after, Wang Zijia swallowed the last Circulation Pill, but to his dismay, this damned medicine didn't give birth to a weight.
To be precise, when this damned medicine entered his stomach, it didn't dissolve immediately but instead transformed into a warm current, continuously releasing medicinal power. It wasn't strong, but it was persistent.
Wang Zijia, who was frozen for a moment, immediately began to meditate, thereby speeding up the release of the medicinal power.
Once he entered into tranquility, he remained there for a full two hours.
When the pills were all but exhausted, no new weight was born. However, his cultivation had actually increased quite a bit by a full value point.
Because of this situation, his previous guess had been thoroughly confirmed. At one value point, Martial Cultivation was probably equivalent to a year's worth of power. In other words, at a hundred value points, he should be able to break through to the Innate level.
Weight: Martial Cultivation
Level: Postnatal Elementary Level (First-class)
Status: Cultivating
Value: 22.1
Introduction: Cultivation of the Innate Grandmaster High-grade Method "Qianying Skill".
Seeing his cultivation returning to double its original value, increasing by 12 value points all at once, which equates to twelve years of power, Wang Zijia showed a bright smile.
After a moment, once he stabilized his mind, he began to summarize the tests he had carried out tonight.
5.1 magic coins' worth of poison ultimately resulted in 9 value points of cultivation. However, it lacked True Qi and would need two or three days of buffer time to naturally catch up with the realm.
The Temporary Enhancement Pill, which costed 1 magic coin, resulted in 3 points of cultivation because the explosive medicinal power was directly converted into cultivation. This method of cultivation was the fastest and didn't need buffering.
The Circulation Pill, which costed 1.5 magic coins, cultivated 1 value point in cultivation.
Looking at the three major tests and considering their cost-effectiveness, Wang Zijia finally set his sights on the Explosive Qi Pill.
To him, this thing was better than the Circulation Pill. Compared to poison, it currently looked to be slightly better due to its higher cost-effectiveness, but it lacked growth potential.
After all, if he were to acquire more poison, mix them to an extreme degree, and then increase their poison resistance, it's possible it could surpass the Explosive Qi Pill in cost-effectiveness.
However, for now, in a short span of time, this temporary enhancement pill had the best value-for-money. He was in urgent need of quickly improving his cultivation, so he would pick this over others for now.
He still needed to cultivate 78 years' worth of power to reach the Hundred-Year Innate level. A bottle of Explosive Qi pill could be traded for three years' worth of cultivation. That meant he needed to buy 26 bottles.
He flipped the small box over and counted the remaining money.
Adding his father's savings to those saved up over the past few months, excluding some gold, he had a total of 41 magic coins.
He had used 7 today, leaving him with 34. That was enough to raise his power to the Innate level.
Well, this Explosive Qi Pill wasn't like the Circulation Pill; there weren't many purchasing restrictions.
Instead of dragging it on and risking unforeseen circumstances, he'd rather buy it all tomorrow, achieve the Innate level, and then see what comes next. After all, his current situation was very precarious!
It's settled then!
Tomorrow, I'll buy the medicine, and trade them to achieve Innate mastery!
At the very least, an Innate expert, to some extent, is considered exceptional and not too different from a beginning-level monk.
Not only that, after attaining Innate cultivation, it would be easier for him to plot for the Spiritual Roots.
"Yes, solve everything in one go tomorrow, better to act quickly to avoid further complications. No, buy them tonight, after all, the shop is open 24 hours a day." With these words, Wang Zijia put the magic coins into his money bag.