Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 208 Heavenly Prison Lock

"So, how do we poison it?"

Soon, Wu Feng scratched his head and raised a very practical question.

None of them would have the materials to prepare poison.

Poisoning—these two words sound easy and seem simple, but in reality, they are quite a skill.

What can be used to poison something? What kind of smoke from burning things can be toxic? How can toxic smoke be made as colorless and odorless as possible? These are all questions that require knowledge.

Without prior arrangement, Ma Xiaotao and the others from the outer courtyard all subconsciously turned their gazes to the only Tang Sect disciple present.

"Beibei, want to show off your skills?"

Xu Sanshi looked at Bei Bei, who was completely bewildered: "You always said that your Tang Clan's Xuan Yu Hand was used to isolate poisons. Xuan Yu Hand, Controlling Cranes and Capturing Dragons, Tang Clan's hidden weapons, Tang Clan's Poison Scripture, and Ghost Shadow Step are all in one. It's time for you to shine."

Beibei looked incredibly embarrassed, and a few beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

He used to tell Xu Sanshi that he was afraid of hurting him if he didn't use Tang Clan's poisonous skills, but that was all pure bragging. In reality, Tang Clan's poisonous skills had long been lost.

Nowadays, the only poison-related weapons the Tang Clan possesses are hidden weapons with poison attributes, such as the Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Stealing Dart. The true study of toxicology has long since disappeared.

After all, according to Xiaoya, the Tang Clan was originally composed of the Mintang, Litang, Yutang, and Yaotang, along with the inner disciples of the Tang Clan.

However, not long after that, the existence of the medicine hall gradually declined, changing from a place that originally refined medicine and made poisons to a place that could only refine medicine.

Later, with the arrival of various tonics from the Sun Moon Empire, even the alchemy business could not continue, making it the first of the four halls of the Tang Clan to disappear.

The various toxicological techniques of the Tang Clan were gradually lost due to the passing of the elders of these pharmacy halls.

By Xiaoya's generation, only methods of using poison needles and powders remained. The techniques of using poison to fight poison, using poison as medicine, and combining various toxins had been completely lost, and not even a single book about them remained.

Beibei originally thought that this might be due to the gradual decline of the Tang Sect and the loss of its heritage. However, according to Xiaoya, it seems that the Tang Sect's toxicology had been completely lost nearly 10,000 years ago, before the Sun Moon Continent collided with the Douluo Continent.

That period was the heyday of the Tang Clan. Even the so-called Three Upper Sects had to temporarily give way to the Tang Clan at that time.

The current members of the Tang Clan may still use poison, but the techniques for preparing various toxins, or even for developing new and more potent poisons from existing ones, are long gone.

Take Beibei for example. He has a lot of poison powder and poisonous hidden weapons in his storage soul tool.

What can be ignited to produce toxic fumes, which toxic fumes can paralyze the respiratory tract, which toxic fumes can kill people, and how to make toxic fumes colorless and odorless—these are technical skills that are theoretically easy to master, but they are completely beyond Beibei's level.

"Well, among the Tang Sect's secret techniques I've studied, I haven't been the most diligent in the field of toxicology. I really am not very good at this."

Bei Bei awkwardly tried to defend the Tang Clan and save face, while Chen Ping in the crowd smiled as he watched Bei Bei lie with a straight face.

Doesn't he know whether the Tang Clan still has poison techniques?

If the Tang Sect truly possessed the complete, unedited version of the Poison Scripture, how could Wang Dong have logged off and had Tang Wutong take over the account? How could Da Ming and Er Ming have urged Huo Yuhao to retrieve the complete Poison Scripture from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and wholeheartedly prove their feelings for Wang Dong?

The more fierce a dog is, the more ferocious it becomes after training. And the more ferocious a dog is, the more it needs to be trained, like a hawk being tempered, its pride trampled into the dust, its spine broken time and time again. Until it is trained to the point that it no longer dares to have any thoughts of love, that it can only touch its own wife if it depends on its father-in-law's opinion, and that it regards receiving its father-in-law's praise as the highest honor, then it is considered well trained.

If Tang Shenwang said he had a plan for ten thousand years, then he really did have a plan for ten thousand years, and he could really have prepared for it ten thousand years ago without any exaggeration.

After all, ten thousand years is only a little over twenty years in the realm of gods.

During this period, the Tang Sect lost a Poison Scripture, the Haotian Sect lost a Chaotic Cloak, the Slaughter City was destroyed and there was no new Evil Soul Prison, and the Holy Spirit Cult of the Three Kingdoms was able to destroy rings. These were all growing pains in the development of the ten-thousand-year plan.

The common people suffer, and whoever wants to bear the infamy can bear it.

Seeing that Beibei had no good solution to the poisoning problem, Chen Ping simply rummaged through the medicinal herbs in his storage soul tool to see if there was any alternative.

Just as he could deduce from the system which drugs could be combined to improve physical fitness, it wouldn't be difficult to create several rare poisons by properly combining the medicinal herbs in this ring.

Every medicine has its side effects, and poison and medicine go hand in hand. Now it's finally Chen Ping's system's turn to shine.

"Boss, how about we try to deduce the Tang Sect Poison Scripture directly? With Bei Bei, a member of the Tang Sect, by your side, the Tang Sect Poison Scripture, originally priced at 588,000, is now only 288,000 Academic Points!"

The system's voice sounded in Chen Ping's mind. Seeing that the others in the team had temporarily skipped the topic of poisoning and were discussing other things, Chen Ping replied.

"I'm getting more and more curious about what your operating rules are."

"When deducing the meaning of an item, the more related items there are, the fewer points are required for the deduction. Why does this happen?"

The system suddenly went silent, as if the problem had touched on some crucial point.

Chen Ping had some vague guesses about this issue.

The questions he wanted to deduce seemed to have answers in the system all along, but finding them was troublesome.

The clues he found and the people he encountered were like keywords in a database search.

Adding an extra keyword can eliminate a significant portion of the redundant information that needs to be filtered out during the search process.

And the academic points seem to be the essential energy source that drives the retrieval of this giant Douluo Continent database.

Of course, this was just a conjecture or intuition that Chen Ping gradually came to understand after living with the system for the past two years.

"Alright, I guessed that if I waited until the poisonous miasma of Sunset Forest to buy the Tang Sect Poison Scripture, it would be cheaper. I don't need such powerful poison theory techniques now. Just give me a few ways to prepare poison smoke that can take down the highest Soul King."

For Chen Ping at this stage, the most important thing is still the series of matters related to suppressing bandits. Chen Ping didn't worry too much about these things and quickly placed an order with the system.

As system notification sounds rang out, the complex firing processes and preparation methods for various toxic fumes were revealed before his eyes.

Of these, the one that Chen Ping found most useful was a mixed poison called the Heavenly Prison Lock.

(End of this chapter)