My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Xia Zuo scratched the back of his head in confusion, and the little light in front of him immediately disappeared back into his body.

He felt he had found some clues, but he couldn't pinpoint the key point and was constantly struggling in a blind spot of knowledge.

He kept drinking refined Black Eye Poison all morning until the refined powder on the shelf was all used up.

11:50 PM.

Xia Zuo stared blankly at the more than 200 empty glass bottles on the table, reviewing the message sent by the golden finger in his mind.

The first few hundred lines of information were all feedback after drinking the poison, and the content was roughly the same, so he flipped directly to the end to read them.

..

[Level] LV.12

[Experience] 500+600 → 1100/1600

[Willpower] 5+2→7

[Soil resistance] 0.5% + 0.5% → 1%

[Wind Resistance] 0.5% + 0.5% → 1%

[Water resistance] 0.5% + 0.5% → 1%

[Fire Resistance] 2% (No change since it is not less than 2%)

..

The rewards for the Willpower attribute are significantly reduced due to the increase in resistance, but the experience rewards are still very generous with the additional bonuses.

There were also more than 30 bottles of refined white palate poison powder on the shelf. The refined white palate poison is more potent, and there is no corresponding antidote.

Using White Palate Poison for leveling up is not as convenient or safe as using Black Eye Poison.

Based on the principle that waste is a crime, Xia Zuo decided to consume them slowly.

He tidied up the more than 200 empty glass bottles on the table and put them on the shelf, then quietly left the poison alchemy area.

Chapter 36 Adaptability

At 1 p.m. on the same day.

Xia Zuo returned to the poison alchemy area and came to the shelf where poisons were placed once again.

He took a bottle of refined white palate poison, sat down in the chair, and used his detection spell to carefully check the potency of the poison.

(The data in parentheses represents the calculation of willpower and resistance. This sentence will be omitted from now on.)

After drinking this bottle of white palate poison, you will gain 2 stacks of suffocation effect, losing 30 (28) points of health per minute for 1 (097) minutes, for a total loss of 30 (28) points of health.

The White Palate Poison without added refined powder causes one layer of suffocation, deducting 20 health points per minute for 3 minutes, for a total of 60 health points.

Adding refined powder increases the potency of the poison but shortens its duration, resulting in a 50% reduction in total health loss.

By crafting another refined bottle of White Palate Poison and combining the two bottles, the amount of health lost will be the same as before the refinement. At the same time, the time it takes for the poison to fully take effect will be reduced from 3 minutes to 2 minutes.

The difference between losing 60 health points in 3 minutes and losing 60 health points in 2 minutes is only 1 minute, but it is a qualitative improvement, increasing the speed at which the poison takes full effect by 33.

Xia Zuo glanced at his health bar.

[Health] 50/50 (Healthy)

[Base Health Regeneration Speed]

012 o'clock/minute (7 o'clock/hour)

Drinking a bottle of refined white palate poison will deduct 28 points of health, reducing your health to 22 points, slightly below 50, which is relatively safe.

Without considering the extra health regeneration bonus from [Emergency Hour], you can drink a bottle of refined poison after about 4 hours.

What if we also considered the special effects for "emergency moments"?

Xia Zuo felt like he was about to develop a clever and unconventional strategy.

[Emergency Hour]

When health is below 50% of the maximum, the health regeneration bonus from Vitality is increased by 50%. When health is below 25% of the maximum, the effect of [Emergency Moment] is doubled!

Assuming the maximum health is 60 points, the base health regeneration rate remains unchanged at 7 points/hour.

First, drink a bottle of refined white palate poison, deducting 28 points, leaving 32 points.

Then drink another bottle, deduct 28 points, leaving 4 points.

Since the HP is 4 points lower than the maximum of 25, the [Emergency Moment] effect is triggered twice, and the [Base HP Regeneration Speed] is increased by 100, reaching 14 points/hour.

When health is above 15 points, the additional health regeneration speed bonus provided by [Emergency Moment] is reduced to 50, and the [Base Health Regeneration Speed] is reduced to 105 points/hour.

It only takes about 25 hours to recover from 4 points of health to 32 points.

Using this method, the interval between ingesting white palate poison can be reduced from 4 hours to 25 hours, a reduction of 375%.

Hmm... very interesting.

The art of controlling blood flow.

It's hard to reduce someone else's health, but it's easy to reduce your own.

Perhaps in the future, when the maximum health is increased to several hundred points, we can rely on [Emergency Moment] to continuously level up by injecting poison 24 hours a day.

Xia Zuo nodded, holding the poison bottle.

However, there's no need to do that now.

On the one hand, risking a low blood level to try white palate poison is simply reckless. On the other hand, there isn't enough stockpile of such deadly poisons.

Let's keep this leveling plan, which relies on the "Emergency Moment" skill, as a backup for now.

"gollum"

He tilted his head back and drank the refined white palate poison, then skillfully kicked his legs and leaned back in his chair.

Suffocation is unpleasant.

But he wasn't panicked at all, appearing much calmer than when he first drank the white palate poison. He wouldn't die anyway. He could just take a nap and it would pass.

1 minute later.

The sound of heavy breathing filled the basic alchemy room.

Xia Zuo slumped into a chair, panting heavily, patiently waiting for his health to recover.

A few more minutes passed. The dizziness in my head dissipated on its own as my blood pressure rose, and my brain returned to a clear and sharp state.

"Successfully ingesting 1 bottle of White Palate Poison (homemade, 1st refinement) will grant an additional 40 experience points, 105 experience points, 00105 points to Willpower attribute, and 00105 points to resistance to water, wind, and earth elements."

Huh? How come there are 105 experience points? That's seven or eight more than the refined Black Eye Poison.

Xia Zuo leaned back in his chair, staring blankly at the alchemical lamps on the ceiling, rummaging through old information in his mind.

Oh, right, I used to only drink a third of the bottle each time, but this time I drank the whole bottle.

One-third of the 105 experience points is 35 points, which is about 1 point more than before.

Is it possible to drink only one-third of the bottle?

One-third of a bottle reduces the health by about 9 points.

Keeping your health below 50 results in a health regeneration rate of 105 points per hour, which is exactly equal to the amount of health lost. This allows you to drink one-third of a bottle every hour, or one bottle every three hours, for a poison-testing speed.

Xia Zuo walked to the shelf and prepared another bottle of refined white palate poison.

He took a measuring cup, poured out one-third of it, and then downed it in one gulp.

Perhaps due to the increased willpower and resistance, apart from a slight itch in the throat and nose, and some body twitching, no other effects of the poison appeared.

Insufficient dosage prevents the toxic effects of suffocation from being achieved.

This drug trial was deemed a failure by the Golden Finger, and no reward was given.

Xia Zuo pursed his lips and poured the remaining two-thirds into his mouth.

"cough cough"

The itching in my throat worsened, and my limbs trembled uncontrollably. I tried to breathe by forcefully inhaling and exhaling, manipulating my chest like a blower, and I was still able to manage to breathe.

These discomforts lessen over time.

My mind was still blank; there was no information about any cheat codes.

It seems that taking shortcuts won't work. You have to meet the conditions set by the cheat system to gain experience. Otherwise, don't expect to get a single reward.

Xia Zuo put the empty bottle away with a helpless expression.

He calculated the time for the next drug trial by looking at the clock on the wall, and then went into the advanced alchemy room to refine the powder.

...

It was late afternoon, before dinner.

Three bottles of refined powder for Black Eye Agent and one bottle of refined powder for White Palate Agent were found on the shelf.

These are the results of today's refining process.

With the goal of maximizing experience gain, by refining at full speed from morning till night for a whole day, you can obtain 9 bottles of refined powder for Black Eye Poison and 2 bottles of refined powder for White Palate Poison.

Drink one bottle of refined white palate poison in the morning and one bottle in the afternoon, and fill the rest of the time with refined black eye poison.

All things considered, you can get about 50 experience points a day, which is 1500 points a month. The leveling speed is close to 1 level per month.

Based on my experience over the past two years, leveling up once a month is definitely a very fast leveling speed.

While calculating these data, Xia Zuo cleaned the glass bottles that had been empty that day.

After everything was tidied up, they left the poison alchemy area.

...

Dinner time offers a beautiful view of the lake at night, making it the most relaxing and comfortable time of day.

I don't know if it's just my imagination.

Xia Zuo felt that Anru'er's behavior seemed to have become more intimate.