CH 23

Chapter 23 — Spiritual Muscle and Blood Strengthening Soup

It took Lu Sheng a long time to recover from the exhaustion of practicing the Stellar Body Refining Technique for the first time.

This counted as the most exhausting time he had ever spent in the Dream World.

After he barely recovered some of his strength, Lu Sheng ordered the Optical Mind again.

“Search for the most suitable tonic for a Level 1 Martial Artist to replenish their BQV …”

[Query in progress …].

Swish!

A large amount of information once again appeared in front of Lu Sheng.

[Simulation condition: 300 years of Martial Arts … achievable medicinal formula (tonic) …].

[Search in progress …].

The information rapidly decreased.

Shortly afterwards, a handful of contents were presented before Lu Sheng.

In addition to the recipe of each medicine, these contents also listed the form of each herb in the prescription, the current name, and the former name, saving Lu Sheng a lot of hard work.

Lu Sheng wrote down these prescriptions one by one, and then chose to wake up.

…

“It stinks …”

When Lu Sheng awoke, he immediately noticed a strong fishy odor.

He got up and found that his entire body was covered in black and oily sludge. The smell was coming from this sludge.

“Although I only practiced the Stellar Body Refining Technique in the Dream World, some effects were still transmitted to reality …”

It’s like a normal person having a dream about something sad, and then following it up with reality, with tears. Additionally, it was like how if one were to dream of something extremely frightening, one would then experience nervous twitching in reality.

This is the instinctive response produced by the brain to stimulate the muscles.

And such an exaggerated effect was produced solely from instinct, which made Lu Sheng feel that he had still underestimated the combined effect of the two phases of the Stellar Body Refining Technique and the Natural Breathing Technique.

After figuring out the reason, Lu Sheng hurriedly went to take a shower.

“My BQV should’ve increased again, just that I do not know by how much …”

After walking out of the bathroom with damp hair, Lu Sheng looked up at the wall clock and thought, It’s about time to go to school.

…

“Next time, at least say hello to me first.”

After giving Lu Sheng a bank card, Zhong Zhengguo reprimanded him with a bit of dissatisfaction.

“I understand, Teacher Zhong.”

Though he wanted to say something more, when he saw Lu Sheng’s calm demeanor, he closed his mouth again.

“Go go go. From now just make sure to come to school at least once a week to report.” Zhong Zhengguo waved his hand helplessly.

“Yes.”

Lu Sheng put his card away and then turned around and left.

Lu Sheng’s departure back gave Zhong Zhengguo’s heart a strange feeling.

If he had to describe it, he would say that the Lu Sheng from before was like an open book, or just someone he could see through. But now, he felt Lu Sheng was inscrutable someone he couldn’t figure out at all.

And this change took place all in a span of a single day.

Zhong Zhengguo shook his head. It was better to not dwell over things he couldn’t understand.

…

“Finally, I have some money on me …”

After walking out of the office, Lu Sheng felt a little more at ease for the first time in a while.

He could not directly buy supplements with this money, that would be a total waste.

The best way was to buy the ingredients and mix it by himself to make the supplements he wanted.

The Fireseed repository had several kinds of tonic and Medicinal formulas that Lu Sheng could use.

Of course, though there were various options available after the Optic Mind screened it out for him, but in the end the kind that would be suitable for the current Lu Sheng would need further screening.

To be honest, the main parameter for screening this time was the money.

Lu Sheng found an internet café near school to continue his search on the internet.

One couldn’t say how Zhong Zhengguo would react looking at his favorite student turn around and enter an internet café after asking to free his schedule of all classes during school hours.

Providing a wide range of products and services is the company’s main business.

As such, the Internet café was full of smoke. Lu Sheng casually navigated through the smoke and found himself a seat.

On his left and right were young people playing games.

They looked about the same age as him, with flashy hairstyles and tattoos on their arms.

When Lu Sheng sat down and pulled up a search engine to browse information, several of the youths snickered, and no longer gave him any glance.

Lu Sheng ignored them and searched for the information about the formulas and ingredients he had in mind.

The main criterion was still the price. Once he found something, he’d calculate the cost for each ingredient, he made a cost-performance comparison to find the most suitable ingredient that fell within his budget.

Soon, Lu Sheng identified two kinds of tonic pills suited to him.

Spiritual Muscle and Blood Strengthening Soup, and Marrow Nourishing Pill.

The ingredients needed for this two were readily available in the market, and it wasn’t all that expensive, falling right in Lu Sheng budget.

The effect of the Marrow Nourishing Pill was a little better, but he knew that for it to be effective, he required the ones that were freshly picked (within a few hours). And, the herb did not originate from Baihe City.

“Then I’ll have to choose the Spiritual Muscle and Blood Strengthening Soup. Just so it happens that the preparation of Spiritual Muscle and Blood Strengthening Soup is also relatively simple and suitable for a novice like me …”

Lu Sheng made up his mind.

Now there was only one problem left for him to consider.

“Where do I prepare the soup?”