The Powerful Black Serpent Elixir

Chapter 29 The Powerful Black Serpent Elixir (Please continue reading)

"Young master, you've finally returned." Sir Fred opened the city gates for Li Wei, welcoming him back.

"Nothing happened in the territory while I was away," Li Wei asked.

"Everything is normal in the territory. Did your trip go well?"

"good."

After exchanging pleasantries with Sir Fred, Li Wei returned to his room.

During this trip, Li Wei spent all the gold coins at the bottom of that iron box, and overnight, he became penniless again.

"However, this time we gained a lot."

Two bottles of ambergris, two bloodline breathing techniques, a stable sales channel for weapons and armor, and some miscellaneous books.

Li Wei has basically achieved his goals for this trip.

Everything is ready now, except for preparing the secret medicine.

The next day, Li Wei slept soundly until dawn.

The preparation of the Black Serpent Elixir is not a technical skill. Unlike the alchemy and medicine-making techniques of my previous life, it does not require any fire refining.

Simply mix the ingredients according to a fixed ratio, then knead them into small pills.

Therefore, Li Wei successfully prepared a full two hundred secret medicines.

If too much of the secret medicine is mixed, the efficacy of the ambergris will be diluted too much, rendering it ineffective.

According to the recipe, these two bottles of ambergris can make about two hundred pieces.

At one pill a day, that should be enough for Li Wei to cultivate for the next six months.

After preparing the secret medicine, Li Wei swallowed it and prepared the food. He then eagerly began practicing the Black Serpent Breathing Technique.

I've been out these past two days, so I haven't been able to practice breathing exercises.

About an hour later, Li Wei completed one cycle of the breathing exercise.

[Black Snake Breathing Technique Proficiency +10]

"Taking the secret medicine makes a difference. Under normal circumstances, I can only increase my proficiency by 1-2 points by running the breathing technique once. With the help of the secret medicine, it increases several times. Unfortunately, at the quasi-knight stage, I can only take one secret medicine a day. I can't take more than that, as too much is as bad as too little."

After taking the Black Serpent Elixir, he clearly felt a cold current coursing through his body while practicing the Black Serpent Breathing Technique. This cold current seemed to be the effect of the Black Serpent Elixir. With the support of this cold current, Li Wei maintained a highly focused mind and was in an extremely efficient state of cultivation.

After completing one round of the breathing technique, wisps of white vapor began to emanate from the pores of Li Wei's body. After the white vapor dissipated, some black grime was expelled from his body.

"This...this black snake medicine actually has such an effect, expelling some impurities from my body."

After eliminating toxins and taking a shower, I feel completely relaxed.

While he was in good form, Li Wei practiced the Golden Cross Slash once more.

[Golden Cross Slash Proficiency +3]

"Indeed, the Black Serpent Elixir seems to be able to keep people highly focused, thereby increasing efficiency and entering a state similar to a low-level epiphany. So not only breathing techniques, but also sword skills training effects are far superior to usual. It's a good thing."

Not only that, but Li Wei didn't know if it was just his imagination, but he felt that his physical condition had been slightly improved after taking the Black Snake Breathing Technique. He guessed that it might be a special effect of taking it for the first time.

After practicing the breathing technique and the Golden Cross Slash several more times, I completed today's training task.

Then Li Wei took out the Frostwolf Breathing Technique and the Giant Bear Breathing Technique that he had bought at the auction.

Both of these breathing techniques are rudimentary and are bloodline breathing techniques, making them the least valuable of all breathing techniques.

Li Wei was the first to open the scroll of the Giant Bear Breathing Technique.

On the parchment were tiny figures resembling the Black Snake Breathing Technique from his own family. The figures were in various poses. If the Black Snake Breathing Technique was mainly about the bizarre, then the giant bear breathing technique figures were mainly about expansive and powerful movements, much like some fierce and powerful boxing techniques from his previous life.

In the middle of these tiny figures stood a colossal bear, as large as a small mountain, roaring to the sky and exuding a savage aura.

This is the emblem of the Rock Bear family [Rock Bear].

"It's obvious that the Giant Bear Breathing Technique is a breathing technique that focuses on power, which complements my Black Serpent Breathing Technique."

Li Wei then looked at another Frostwolf Breathing Technique scroll. The contents were similar to the Giant Bear Breathing Technique, consisting of small figures in different poses surrounded by a silver-white giant wolf, which was the emblem of the Frostwolf family [Silver Frostwolf].

Li Wei noticed that the giant wolf's appearance was somewhat similar to the mountain wolf king he had killed, not just in appearance, but also in its demeanor and aura.

Anyway, the wolf king of that mountain is already dead and turned to ashes, so it doesn't matter if we're related.

"The Frostwolf Breathing Technique focuses on reaction speed and agility. Not bad. If I could learn these two breathing techniques, with the Black Serpent focusing on defense, the Rock Bear on strength, and the Frostwolf on speed, wouldn't I be a polygonal warrior?" Li Wei laughed.

"Let's start with the Frost Wolf Breathing Technique. My strength is still decent, and I have armor and the Black Serpent Breathing Technique for defense, so I don't lack those for now. What I lack most right now is speed and agility. Of all martial arts, speed is the only thing that can't be broken!"

"Let's try to add Frostwolf Breathing Technique to the proficiency panel first. As long as it can be added to the panel, let alone a breathing technique, even a forbidden divine art, I'll find a way to grind it to the maximum level for you, as long as you have time."

The proficiency panel is Li Wei's greatest asset.

This seemingly ordinary cheat code only demonstrates proficiency.

But that's the most amazing thing about the cheat code: it means that some extremely difficult things can be fully demonstrated through data-driven proficiency.

Li Wei can improve his skills simply by grinding for proficiency, just like in a game.

Every effort will yield results and feedback.

Spiritual practice is no longer about blindly relying on experience and rough perception, but rather about having a clear reference and a continuously evolving, detailed goal.

Getting started with breathing techniques isn't something that can be accomplished in just a day or two.

It took Li Wei a full half month to master the Black Snake Breathing Technique.

Although the Frostwolf Breathing Technique is only at a rudimentary level, it will still take Li Wei some time to fully comprehend and understand those patterns and postures.

While practicing his breathing techniques, Li Wei was not idle. He seemed to have inexhaustible energy, and whenever he had free time, he would go blacksmithing. He was going to start studying the blueprints that the knight had given him and prepare to try to forge armor. He was going to deliver a batch of goods in three months.

Days passed by, and Li Wei's life was incredibly fulfilling. In the castle courtyard, the three brothers were growing happily. With huge amounts of food entering their bellies, their bodies were expanding at a rate that was almost visible to the naked eye. Every time they were not seen for a while, they would be a little bigger.

The third day of the Flower Month in the year 1006 of the Emerald Calendar.

Li Wei also learned from Sir Fred that his two neighbors, the heirs of Frostwind Territory and Rocky Territory, had sold their ancestral fiefs one after another, and their entire clans had moved to Frozen City, becoming the lowest-ranking landless nobles. The buyers of the fiefs were the Church of Holy Light.

It is said that the church will build a new church in Silvermoon Territory so that the holy light of the Father in heaven can warm the people of this extremely cold land.

Li Wei cursed inwardly.

He had a premonition that his peaceful life would be disrupted by the arrival of the church.

(End of this chapter)