My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Audrey negotiated prices with the pharmacy owner at the counter.

Xia Zuo slowly walked around the store, scanning the beautifully packaged glass bottles.

The medicines here are all-encompassing, ranging from painkillers and hemostatics for treating sprains and bruises to remedies for repairing internal organ injuries—you name it, they have it.

Xia Zuo didn't hold back with his detection skills. He would pause for a moment at each booth to examine all the potions and note their uses and names.

Next to the medicine bottle were small cards. The uses described on the cards were transformed into detailed data with the help of the Detection Technique.

"Small Rejuvenation Potion, restores 10 health points within 60 seconds. Experience is gained upon successful health restoration. Potion name and use successfully memorized; information has been entered into knowledge reserve."

"The universal antidote can neutralize or grant immunity to most poisoning conditions within one hour of ingestion. Successfully neutralizing or granting immunity to poisoning will grant experience points."

"A weak recovery potion that instantly restores 20 health points upon consumption, and grants experience based on the amount of health restored."

Instantly restores 20 HP?

Xia Zuo squatted down, staring intently at the hexagonal glass bottle. The bottle contained a bright red liquid, like fresh blood flowing in a vein.

This is a great product; one bottle will instantly restore your health to full.

Xia Zuo looked at the price.

20 silver dollar bottle.

I go.

Even if I sold myself, I still couldn't afford it. It truly is a lifesaver.

Xia Zuo's eyes lit up as he set himself a small goal: to save up money to buy a bottle and carry it with him in case of emergency.

His gaze gradually moved upwards, sweeping over the other potions in the same series.

..

Lesser Recovery Potion, instantly restores 30 health points, priced at 30 silver coins.

Intermediate recovery potion, instantly restores 50 health points, priced at 50 silver coins per bottle.

A potent recovery potion that instantly restores 80 health points, priced at 80 silver coins per bottle.

..

The palm-sized silver coins came in different denominations. The one Xia Zuo found on the wicked old man was a one-dollar coin. To this day, he has never seen a silver coin with a higher value.

Xia Zuo's gaze shifted to the luxurious velvet packaging box at the very top.

..

Perfect-grade recovery potion, instantly restores 100 health points, priced at 1 gold coin bottle.

..

My goodness! 1 gold coin equals 100 silver coins, and this perfect-grade recovery potion costs 100,000 copper coins. My teeth are practically aching from the fumes.

Such expensive medicine is displayed in the store like this; it seems the owner of the pharmacy is no ordinary person.

Xia Zuo turned his head and glanced at the owner of the pharmacy.

The other person appeared to be an ordinary, honest middle-aged man. The information returned by the detection spell was nothing special; it was entirely at the level of an average person.

At this moment, the pharmacy owner was taking out several bottles of medicine from a special display case.

The medicines that Xia Zuo just saw, priced in silver dollars, are safe for ordinary people to drink and have no side effects.

The deep red display case contained potions that only those who had practiced breathing techniques could drink.

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A weak Strength Burst Potion. Increases Strength by 1 to 3 points within 30 seconds of ingestion. A maximum of 3 bottles can be consumed per hour; otherwise, a mild poisoning state will occur. Ingesting this potion without practicing breathing techniques will result in a moderate poisoning state with no other effects. Successful ingestion grants experience.

Price: 200 copper coins per bottle.

..

The other medicines in the dark red display case are similar; ordinary people will be directly poisoned if they drink them, and even those who know breathing techniques should not drink too much, otherwise they will also be poisoned.

The only exception was the medicine that the pharmacy owner had.

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A mild body repair potion that, when consumed, slowly heals hidden injuries and reduces the negative effects of breathing techniques. The effect lasts for 30 days; repeated consumption during this period will not enhance its effectiveness. Experience is gained upon effectively repairing hidden injuries.

Price: 200 copper coins per bottle.

..

"Has any of our circus fire-breathing guys come here to buy medicine? The bald guy, no beard, the one with the burns on his throat."

As Audrey asked the question, she used her own money to buy five bottles of body repair potion.

"Yes, he came here. He bought a lot of painkillers."

The pharmacy owner paused in his calculations, then emphasized, "You have to remind him not to drink too much at once. Painkillers are quite addictive."

A fleeting look crossed Audrey's face, but she quickly regained her smile, took the boy's hand, and left the apothecary.

Xia Zuo could understand the worries in the eldest sister's heart, and he felt the same way.

When a person takes an addictive substance alone, without supervision, it is easy for them to increase the dosage under the influence of the drug in order to obtain greater satisfaction.

When Xia Zuo thought about how Vans had come to steal three silver coins and was suspected of being expelled from the original circus, he felt a deep sense of empathy for the burden on Audrey's shoulders.

"Little one, is there anything you want to buy? Snacks? Toys?"

Audrey stopped in front of a fairly large and well-decorated grocery store.

"I don't want to buy anything. I want to save all the money and just read books in my spare time."

Xia Zuo looked at the goods in the general store, but he really couldn't muster any interest.

A row of clay figures that urinate when water is poured on them, and several dolls that make a duck-like sound when squeezed flat... these are toys that I've long since grown tired of.

And those cute, brightly colored lollipops—how could Xia Zuo, whose two lifetimes combined are over thirty, be so fascinated by these things meant to fool little kids?

"That's so thoughtful. Let's go back to the hotel then."

Audrey pulled the boy into her arms, patted his arm, and praised him a few times.

This is what Xia Zuo likes.

Hehe hehe

The bright moon hung high in the sky, its frosty light spilling onto the floor, while snores rose and fell in the three-person guest room.

Shazo shared a room with Snake and Big Guy. The other two had been busy all day and fell asleep as soon as they hit the bed.

He alone, under the bright moonlight, flipped through the books he had just bought.

Audrey chose both the Rosac Geography and the Wilderness Survival Manual. The two books complement each other, making reading them together much more efficient.

Xia Zuo let out a silent gasp after seeing the contents of a certain page.

It turns out that his encounter with the circus group was purely by chance, a combination of luck and a little bit of logical reasoning.

Rosac Province is located in the southernmost part of the Starry Night Kingdom. To its south lies a desolate wilderness ravaged by bandits.

In the forest, relying on the sun to determine directions is unreliable and can easily lead to getting lost.

The best approach is to walk in the opposite direction of the light-colored or white trees; the more brown trees you see, the closer you are to inhabited areas of Rosac province.

If the wicked old man hadn't placed the boys' burial site south of the cave, Xia Zuo wouldn't have gone north.

That's all for now, time to go to sleep.

Xia Zuo stretched, put the two books away, lay down on the bed, and quickly fell asleep.

The days that followed were pretty much the same.

Xia Zuoshou greeted tourists at the ticket window, while the rest performed inside the pointed tent.

Every day's pay was settled on the spot after dinner. The leader never used any excuse to deduct any of the members' pay.

On the seventh day at noon, the group tidied up the site, returned the pointed tents and carriages to the parking lot, and had free time for the rest of the day.

Xia Zuo stayed in his room reading until the carriage procession set off the next morning before leaving the room.

"Successfully memorized the Rosac Province Geography and Wilderness Survival Manual, gaining a total of 4.5 experience points."

"Current upgrade progress 1515, upgrading in progress, upgrade successful!"

Level 3

Experience 020

The long-lost 36-sided die appeared before my eyes, and unsurprisingly, it landed on the "1".

Xia Zuo didn't complain, after all, things are different now.

With a stable upgrade path and no need to worry about making a living, it's only a matter of time before you get 36 free attribute points.

I didn't allocate the newly acquired free attribute point to any attribute; I'll consider using it later when I need it.

I now have a total of 2 free attribute points.

The circus caravan started moving, slowly driving out of the city gates along with the merchants and travelers heading out of town.

"Good lad, hehe... I've got a gift for you."

Poppy, the roommate in the carriage, took a small rubber ball out of his pocket.

"Thank you, Popeye."

Xia Zuo gripped the ball in his hands and squeezed it tightly with both hands.

Bang! The rubber ball shot out from between his fingers and bounced back against the wall of the carriage.

"Ah..." Xia Zuo raised his arm to protect his face, afraid that the ball would hit him.

Popeye grabbed the rubber ball with a "snap" and chuckled, "I'll teach you how to use it. Interlace your fingers and hold the ball, yes, like that."

Following the strongman's instructions, Xia Zuo successfully flattened the rubber ball in his palm.

"Yes, yes, hehe, that's how you hold it, you have to hold it for at least 10 seconds." Popeye took out his ball and started practicing.

Ten seconds later, Xia Zuo released his hand, and a message appeared in his mind.

"Complete one miniature elastic ball grip and pressure training session to gain 0.0001 experience points and 0.100001 strength points."