Quadruple Evolution

Chapter 57 Dual Evolution

One week later.

His body was emaciated, weak, and powerless. Even when he was just sitting in front of the lab table reading, a cold sweat appeared on his pale face, his eyes were filled with abnormal blood vessels, and he made a "huffing" sound in his throat, his breathing was weak and feeble.

Peranos took this for granted and was shaking a vial of potion.

"It seems that oral medication is indeed more effective than respiratory infections. When I had a lymph node infection under my mentor's guidance, it took three weeks before I developed the symptoms you are now."

Peranos shook the green potion in his hand, and after seeing a trace of life emerge from it, he handed it to Grin.

Green took the medicine, swallowed it in one gulp, and then felt a surge of life energy nourishing his entire body, which also alleviated the weakness he felt.

After taking out the crystal ball and briefly checking it, Green gave a wry smile. Had his stamina already dropped to 2?

Peranos shook his head, put down the empty test tube, and while using his mental power to probe the large amount of text information in his crystal ball, he said indifferently, "If a creature in nature gets infected with the lymphatic system, without a treatment, it will almost certainly die after a few months of weakness. But in a wizard's laboratory, you just need to wait quietly. No one will threaten your life; just treat it as an illness."

"Um."

After responding, Ge Yi slowly closed the book, and, exhausted, lay down on the bed in the corner of the laboratory and fell asleep.

Peranos glanced at Green, seemingly recalling his own past, and after a sigh, quietly left the laboratory.

……

Two months later.

Lying on the bed, Green was almost dying. His body was so thin that he was skin and bones, and his eyes were dim and lifeless. He wanted to sit up and continue the experiment he had just finished before the break, but he had no strength at all. Several attempts to sit up ended in failure.

Peranos frowned.

"They reached their peak reproductive period in just two months. Is it because of the oral lymphatic system? If so, that's a month faster than expected."

After saying that, Peranos pried open Green's eyes with his withered fingers and, after a simple light-based spell, confirmed that Green's pupils were still slowly reacting.

"Was the time too short, causing the body to absorb too much life energy to keep up with the energy demands of the rapidly multiplying lymph nodes, thus threatening the balance of the host's life system?"

After pacing around the room a few times, Peranos suddenly whispered towards the outside of the room, "Gaheh."

The black cat nimbly ran over, its black tail wagging, and asked in confusion, "Meow, old man, what's wrong?"

"Leave some of your scent on him."

Peranos pointed to Green, who looked like he was about to die, on the bed.

"Leave a trace of scent?"

Looking at Green's miserable state, the black cat whispered, "Honestly, why did you have to do something so reckless? You actually swallowed that stuff orally. Now I have to save you."

As he said this, the black cat suddenly jumped onto Green, and a moment later lifted its hind leg, a small jet of water landing on Green's face.

After urinating, the black cat jumped down and said, "Done."

"Um."

After Peranos agreed, he picked up the gem shell pearl from the lab table and shoved it into Green's mouth. This gem shell pearl was a tool that Green had obtained from the fat man. If you held it in your mouth, you could breathe underwater. However, Green had never had the chance to use it, but now Peranos was using it.

Peranos gently patted Green, and with a surge of magical energy, Green's body floated up as if weightless, seemingly generating some kind of repulsive force with the earth.

A moment later, with a "plop," Green was thrown into the large tank where the fish were kept by Peranos.

Perhaps because of the pungent smell of the fish urine, the fierce-looking wrasses all desperately fled and swam to the other side of the tank the moment the water was introduced into the tank.

…………

three days later.

When Green slowly opened his eyes, he saw that he was lying in the water. He immediately began to struggle, but his extremely weak body made his struggles seem so futile.

Boom, boom, boom.

Hearing the noise, Green forced himself to calm down and turned his head to look. He saw the black cat tapping on the side of the fish tank from the outside.

The black cat said, word by word, "Rest for another day. Your mentor and his wife are going to prepare some recovery food for you."

The sound was somewhat muffled through the water, but Green still managed to understand it, blinking twice to indicate that he understood.

At this moment, Green lay in the bathtub water, wondering about his ability to breathe underwater and marveling at the small fish that dared not approach on the other side of the tank. He also began to sense his body's condition. The fish tank and the water inside seemed to have some peculiar function, as they could generate a rare energy that nourished the body.

At this time, although Green's body was still weak, the lymph nodes in his body seemed to have reached the limit that Green's body could bear and stopped reproducing, forming a symbiotic relationship with Green.

Feeling a little tired, Green closed his eyes again.

……

Two months later, after monitoring with a crystal ball, Green's body had fully recovered, and his physique had reached 6 points.

It should have been 7 points, but 1 point of physical constitution was permanently lost due to excessive consumption of cellular energy in a short period of time.

It's worth mentioning that the first thing Green did after regaining the ability to move on his own was to concoct a deodorizing potion to eliminate the scent left by Gahei on his body, thus restoring his completely odorless state.

Peranos nodded to the side.

"You've recovered well. In that case, you can now begin the formal training of Mixed Poison Body Refinement. However, because your constitution is currently low, you can only use some non-lethal, irritating poisons. In that case, a typical wizard apprentice practicing Mixed Poison Body Refinement would take or inject some weak poisons under the guidance of their mentor. But with me, there are better options."

Peranos led Green to a room completely sealed by magic, and then took out a fully sealed metal vessel from inside.

"This contains a precious piece of radioactive stone with low intensity. However, although it is low intensity, if exposed to civilians, people within a 50-meter radius will weaken and die within a day, and those within a 1,000-meter radius will show varying degrees of poisoning. It is a hazardous material that requires strict monitoring."

As he said this, Peranos turned to Green and said, "However, this poison is most suitable for your early-stage auxiliary training. It won't cause irreversible death, and it can be reused. You just need to control the duration of exposure to the poison."

After a moment of surprise, Green took the sealed container and asked, "So, approximately how much will my physique increase after each cultivation session using the radioactive stone?"

"Around one o'clock."

Peranos affirmed, "After each training session, your body recovers for a month. So, if you use this radiation stone for a year, you can raise your physique to over 15. After a year, because your physique has improved, your lymphatic barrier will develop resistance due to the long-term passive exposure to the radiation stone's toxicity. In that case, relying on the radiation stone for training will be much less effective. At that time, I will guide you in the preparation of real poisons."

Passive evolution?

Green noticed a keyword used by Professor Peranos.

Because of its exceptional adaptability, the lymphatic system possesses a strong capacity for passive evolution. It is by utilizing this characteristic of the lymphatic system that wizards have used their wisdom to develop the art of poison-based body tempering, allowing the lymphatic system to form a thick layer of armor on all the cells of their body, thereby enhancing the constitution of the cells.

As for the human body itself, although it also possesses the ability of passive evolution, since almost all living organisms have this ability, the adaptability and speed of passive evolution of human cells lag far behind those of the simpler lymph nodes. The two are not even comparable. Therefore, the wizards who created this magical knowledge have never paid attention to the passive evolution of the body's cells.

but……

Green, however, is different!

Because of the companion insects, the horseflies and snails, Green's passive evolution far exceeds that of normal humans. In that case, wouldn't his cells be undergoing both internal and external evolution?

In other words, if Green practices the Mixed Poison Body Refinement once a month, the effect should be twice that of normal practice!

Of course, these are just Green's inferences at this time, and have not yet been verified in practice.

Peranos led Green to a spacious, enclosed room and cautiously said, "Radiostones must be used in such a restricted and enclosed room, otherwise they will be transmitted to the surrounding space through certain wavelengths. The old guy downstairs is fine, but what if the guy upstairs is also there, and happens to be in a bad mood, he'll start making a fuss again."

Green nodded cautiously.

"Um."

After Peranos unlocked all the room's restrictions, he carefully opened the lid of the metal vessel. Suddenly, an ordinary-looking black stone appeared in Green's field of vision. At the same time, his body was instantly accompanied by an indescribable feeling of repulsion, as if a sense of crisis was instinctively arising in every cell of his body.

"For the first time, a few breaths will be enough."

After saying this, Peranos closed the metal lid after a few breaths, carefully sealing it.

Grimm looked somewhat bewildered, and also seemed a little weak, asking, "Master, at this stage, how long does the weakness last after each cultivation session?"

Peranos thought for a moment and said, "Right now you've only been exposed to weak toxins, and the weakness will last for about a day. During this period, your lymphatic system will passively evolve and absorb a large amount of your body's energy, so your physical strength will only be about half of what it is normally. Therefore, when exploring or traveling in the wild, never engage in mixed-poison body tempering cultivation."

Peranos warned Green.

"After about ten days, your physical condition will improve because the lymphatic barrier on your cells will be strengthened. The next twenty days are a period of rest and self-regulation for the lymphatic system, which prepares the necessary energy for the next passive evolution."

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Ten days later.

Holding the crystal ball, Green murmured in delight, "8 points of physique! It really did increase by 2 points! Sure enough, after the combination of the gadfly and the lymphatic system, under the dual passive evolution, my body's cells have achieved a dual cultivation characteristic of both internal and external refinement!"

In his excitement, Green began to think about the benefits he would gain from this.

The first benefit is double the speed of physical evolution, the advantages of which are self-evident.

The second benefit is that after being attacked by a weak poison, Green develops a higher physical resistance than a typical wizard apprentice, meaning that Green's body has a greater tolerance range. This means that Green doesn't have to apply poison to the exact limits required by Peranos every time.

In this way, Green would save a lot of time to study other magical knowledge.

(End of this chapter)