My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Therefore, before cutting, the non-solid compound toxins need to be processed by combining them with specific oils and then using alchemical operations such as compression and condensation to make solid spheres the size of a fingernail.

When Xia Zuo previously imitated Ersu, this step had already been completed by the students of oil alchemy.

Now, he wants to process the compound toxins himself.

The oils needed were readily available in the alchemy room.

Xia Zuo spent another half a day processing all five compound toxins.

At 7 p.m. that evening, we were finally able to officially begin cutting the compound toxin.

He plans to start directly with the only master-level compound toxin!

Last night, during his meditation, he spent the entire night memorizing the experiences and insights he had gained from cutting master-level toxins, as recorded on his mental medium.

This knowledge has been included in the [Knowledge Reserve].

Xia Zuo is confident that, in a state of shallow meditation, through continuous attempts, he will be able to successfully cut out master-level bait within the remaining 13 days.

In order to increase the success rate of cutting, and even more so for the generous discount... Xia Zuo decided to take a small risk and try using Blood Element Minions to assist in cutting.

Xia Zuo opened the door to the alchemy room, glanced at the empty corridor, looked at the guards standing by the wall, and then calmly closed the door.

He stood in the empty and quiet alchemy room, recalled his character template in his mind, and used his mind to allocate 1 free attribute point to [Spirit].

Then, he activated [Blood Servant] and directly created a Blood Servant with 1 point of Spirit attribute and 300 points of maximum health using the cheat code.

This method of creation is faster and safer than him entering shallow meditation and personally creating blood element servants.

The entire process lasts only about 10 seconds, and no magical fluctuations are emitted.

When the blood-spot-sized blood element servants appeared in the alchemy chamber, and everything inside and outside remained quiet, Xia Zuo knew that his worst fears had not come true, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief...

The toxicity of complement toxins dictates that they must be used in combination with other complex toxins to achieve their intended effect.

When used alone, complement toxins only cause bodily damage...

Master-level body damage effects!

After reading the instructions in the manual, Xia Zuo tried to have his Blood Element Servant contain a finger-sized amount of replacement toxin...

Simply allowing the toxin to remain in the body will cause the blood servants to suffer continuous damage of 500 points of health loss per hour.

If the Blood Element Servant is forced to absorb the replenishing toxins, the rate at which physical damage causes health loss will double, reaching 1000 points per hour.

With such a significant reduction in health, Xia Zuo certainly wouldn't allow the replacement toxin to remain in the Blood Elemental Servant's body for too long.

He has not yet experienced the death of a bloodline servant, and he is unsure whether the spiritual ocean within the servant's body will return when the servant dies.

In addition, the free attribute points I have are already a bit tight... Any loss will reduce the number of free attribute points I will get in the next level up.

Xia Zuo was extra careful when cutting and filling the poison, stopping from time to time to glance at the Blood Element Servant's health, afraid that he would get too engrossed and fail to save the Blood Element Servant in time.

About two hours later, a faint ringing of a bell came from outside the corridor. It was the elemental servant responsible for announcing the time, reminding the students to prepare for bed.

It's already 9:40 p.m., and there are only 20 minutes left until the designated bedtime.

Xia Zuo's expression changed, and he flicked the wheel on the slider with his right hand, instantly removing the millimeter blade from the mechanical arm to replace the poison.

The Blood Element Servant immediately expelled the toxin from its body. Due to the blood loss, its size shrank from the original palm size to the length of only an index finger.

With the millimeter knife removed from the toxin, Shazo's attempt tonight has failed.

Two hours is not enough time to cut out master-level bait that is stable in the air.

Xia Zuo waved away the Blood Element servants, hastily tidied up the alchemy room, stored the compound toxins he had created on a locked shelf, and then hurried towards his dormitory to the sound of the elemental servants' bells.

After returning to the dormitory.

Xia Zuo took a quick shower and then lay on the bed to reflect on his cutting experience from the evening.

The difficulty of cutting master-level bait was greater than he had imagined.

Xia Zuo thought two hours would be enough to complete the task, but in fact, according to the information from the detection technique, he would need at least another 1.5 to 2 hours to make a master-level bait with a completion rate of about 93%.

Entering a shallow meditative state will continuously consume energy.

The same applies when cutting toxins.

During this process, the rate at which energy points decrease is approximately 1800 energy points per hour.

Xia Zuo's maximum energy level at this time was 7500 points, which was barely enough to meet the requirement of cutting continuously for 4 hours.

The only thing that Xia Zuo was worried about was the health of the Blood Elemental servants.

Cutting for 4 hours means that the Blood Servant will lose 1600 health points.

Xia Zuo currently has a maximum health of 380 points, 10 health packs that can instantly restore 30 points of health, 1 point of freely usable spirit attribute, and 10 free attribute points prepared for leveling up.

He doesn't plan to use these 10 free attribute points for now; he must save them for his weaker attributes, otherwise he'll get fewer free attribute points for the next level up.

In this scenario, the maximum number of Bloodborne minions he can create is 680 points of maximum health…

Xia Zuo can transfer life force to Blood Element servants to help them recover health.

Assuming he fully restores his health before starting to cut the Blood Elemental, he and his Blood Elemental minion will have a total of 1060 health points.

2000-1060 940 =

How can we fill this 940-point health recovery gap?

Xia Zuo focused his mind on his life alchemy stone.

His first reaction was to drink the healing potion himself while simultaneously channeling life force into his blood essence servants.

This method is a bit expensive…

性价比最高的是大型强效复苏药剂——在180秒内回复60点血，银月联邦内的售价为每瓶60点公民积分，相当于每回1点血就花掉了1点公民积分。

940 points = 940 citizen points, which is only 60 points less than the price of the qualification for the promotion assessment of master alchemist... It is not worth spending so much money just to cut a piece of bait.

Moreover, we will definitely be dealing with master-level baits frequently in the future, so we can't keep relying on throwing money at them to recoup our losses, right?

After much thought, Xia Zuo came up with a better method.

He recalled his character template in his mind and looked at the existing bloodline data.

...

[Bloodline Quality] 30

[Bloodline Characteristics] 196

[Number of Blood Marks] 50/100

...

He still has 50 Blood Runes available.

By raising the level of the Blood Servant from lv.0 to lv.10, you can free up a lot of the base health regeneration speed that is currently occupied by Blood Servants and Blood Relatives.

Xia Zuo focused his mind on the plus sign on the [Blood Element Servant] panel and invested 50 Blood Runes at once to max out its level.

His base health regeneration rate then returned to 100 points per hour.

When his health drops below 25%, [Emergency Moment lv.2] will be triggered, at which point his real-time health regeneration rate will reach 250 points/hour, which is enough to cope with the health loss from cutting poison.

This way, you save money on potions and perfectly withstand the damage—it's a win-win situation.

I won twice~

Xia Zuo smiled with satisfaction, released the "Concentration and Tranquility" spell on himself, entered a deep meditation, and continued to memorize the knowledge on the mental medium.

...

Day 17 of my training.

Xia Zuo left the dormitory at 6:30 in the morning.

Outside the corridor railing, a thin mist shrouded the forest. Sunlight streamed down from the eastern sky, dispelling the mist that lingered in the woods, and the vibrant green forest was bathed in golden light.

Xia Zuo gazed at the stunning natural scenery for a short while, took a deep breath, let the fresh air linger in his lungs and nose for a moment, and then slowly exhaled.

He entered the alchemy room, used several blood packs to create a Blood Element Servant with a maximum health of 600, then sat down in the observation chair and quietly waited for his health to return to full.

Using Blood Element minions to assist in cutting is like having X-ray vision...

In this situation, even an alchemist with average alchemical potential can produce a qualified bait.

Xia Zuo's alchemical potential is top-tier.

As long as he doesn't make any mistakes, he can definitely cut out the finished product.

It was nearing noon.

A weary laugh echoed from the alchemy chamber.

Xia Zuo rubbed his sore eyes, took a dose of enhancement potion with the Life Alchemy Stone, and released a detection spell on the cut product in front of him.

...

[Quality] 96% completion rate, excellent.

...

The cheat code then sent a message:

"Successfully developed a high-quality master-level bait, rewarded with 1500 experience points and 0.15 perception attribute points."

1500 PM?

So many? Almost leveled up? Luckily, I left some experience points unused…

Xia Zuo was taken aback, opened the character template, and checked the experience status.

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[Experience] 11540/13000

...

Previously, when I was imitating bait, I would identify and produce 2 to 3 known baits every day, earning an average of 260 experience points per day.

After developing our own master-level bait, we only need 1460 more points to upgrade...

Xia Zuo pondered for a few seconds, then entered a deep meditation, consuming 3000 experience points to accelerate the transcription of knowledge on the mental medium.

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