Mythical Three Kingdoms

”You don’t have to abandon yourself to ascend...” Jia Xu murmured as he looked at the intelligence report, immortality, oh immortality, who doesn’t desire it.

[Lyu Bu did not abandon himself, which is inevitable, he directly ascended, which means martial arts is indeed the path to traverse the heavens, from King Xiang until now it has finally been completed.]

Jia Xu was moved; this kind of immortality through martial arts was completely different from the immortality of the immortal’s techniques, it was real and true. The allure of immortality was irresistible to someone like Jia Xu.

[However, I’m obviously not suitable for cultivating Inner Qi, to be precise, anyone who cultivates Spiritual Capacity and then takes the last step will severely suppress their Inner Qi Cultivation. This means the spirit is not weaker than the body...]

Jia Xu had fully activated his deduction mode, [Lyu Bu has traversed this path, which means our own path is open too, just that no one has completed it. It seems I need to focus more on the spiritual side and see if I can sort out a path.]

[My path as a civil official will naturally also pave a road to the heavens.] Jia Xu secretly resolved, his Spiritual Talent wasn’t just in analyzing battle situations, he was also very capable at analyzing the internal logic of matters, to an even more exaggerated degree!

Immortality had an irresistible temptation for someone like Jia Xu, who feared death, and ascension was the ultimate dream of an immortal. To Jia Xu, it inherently represented a long life, so since there was another way to achieve it, Jia Xu wouldn’t mind trying it out.

”I heard Marquis Wenn shattered the void and ascended,” Zhang Zhongjing said while studying Zhou Tai, turning to Hua Tuo.

”Seems so, but it doesn’t have much to do with us.” Hua Tuo said while applying needles to Zhou Tai again, ”Have you made any progress recently?”

”Not much progress, still can’t figure out what it is, need someone to cooperate with the experiment, are there any prisoners with Qi Refining to Gang left? Give me two, I need to try.” Zhang Zhongjing adjusted the light, looking at the newly cultivated virus being dissolved by a substance extracted from Zhou Tai’s body, he said somewhat helplessly.

”No more prisoners, there are very few prisoners to begin with. Most of the ones sent here are unwilling to reform, yet have committed significant crimes. After all, this can be considered a type of reform.” Hua Tuo glanced at Zhang Zhongjing and said.

As it was said, besides the first few days when Zhang Zhongjing’s movements were restricted to confirm his identity, he truly received privileged treatment, the same as Hua Tuo’s standard for Zhang Zhongjing.

Naturally, all the corpses, test subjects, microscopes, and other such things that weren’t available in Yangzhou broadened Zhang Zhongjing’s horizons significantly.

Initially, he said it violated ethics, but when he started dissecting, he was only slightly less skilled than Hua Tuo. If this guy hadn’t been dissecting stolen bodies like Hua Tuo, Wang Xiu would have given his head cheerfully.

In the guise of being just and open, Zhang Zhongjing wasn’t quite used to it on the first day, but he soon accepted it as a fact. After getting test subjects and microscopes, Zhang Zhongjing completely ceased mentioning returning to Yangzhou and was content with exchanging skills with Hua Tuo.

”Oh well...” Zhang Zhongjing smacked his lips twice, feeling regretful, so many things still needed testing, and yet the prisoners have managed to escape to reform camps.

”You’ve scared them to death with all that torment, last time you injected typhoid poison into one Qi Refining to Gang guy?” Hua Tuo habitually referred to these things as poison.

”Generally, people with Qi Refining to Gang rarely catch this, I just wanted to try it, and after he was infected, I checked his blood again and discovered the toxicity had intensified,” Zhang Zhongjing said, his eyes gleaming.

He then took out a sealed glass tube, ”This is the original typhoid poison I extracted from his body. I tried it on myself, and if this spreads, killing hundreds of thousands would be no problem.”

Qu Qi, who had just tidied up and planned to ask Hua Tuo when they would leave, heard Zhang Zhongjing’s words, and his courage shattered.

”Hanmou, what’s the matter?” Hua Tuo, hearing Zhang Zhongjing’s words, twitched as well, but he had made quite a few such by-products himself.

”I think I’ll stay far away from you guys,” Qu Qi replied with a weary expression; he couldn’t help but believe those two.

The reason why Qu Qi was forced to move next door was because Hua Tuo had hundreds of mice caught, then in front of Qu Qi’s eyes, he dripped an unknown substance, and the mice all died quickly...

More importantly, a plague seemed to break out among the mice; Qu Qi nearly cried in fear at the time and immediately moved. If Hua Tuo wanted his house, it would be his honor...

”Rest assured, I’ve already prepared emergency measures for this. If it falls to the ground and breaks, I’ll deal with it immediately,” Zhang Zhongjing said indifferently, ”Suddenly, I have the urge to throw it onto the Great Prairie.”

”...” Qu Qi and Hua Tuo’s faces instantly darkened.

”I’m here to inform you to head to Ye City; I have already processed the seeds, you should also hurry up and deal with these dangerous things so that if something unexpected happens, this big guy is ready,” Qu Qi sidestepped the topic, looking at Zhou Tai.

”Not bad, our research took a big step forward. We can now solve basically all the plagues that have appeared in history, though the cost is rather high,” Hua Tuo said after exchanging a look with Zhang Zhongjing.

”We’ve extracted a powerful detoxifying agent from the body of an Inner Qi Manifestation expert and likewise, reversed it to develop a deadly poison that can even take down an Inner Qi Manifestation expert.” Hua Tuo took out a vial of pale green liquid, looking serious as he spoke.

Qu Qi felt a chill; such a thing actually existed...

”But it’s not really a finished product, we tested it, and the effect isn’t great. The patient shows symptoms like someone with normal typhoid, and the Inner Qi Manifestation is too strong, with the toxicity taking three to five days to erupt,” Zhang Zhongjing helplessly said.

Incidentally, this was something that Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo had spent a lot of effort cultivating from Zhou Tai.

”You’re healers, not poison makers! Such dangerous things, a single drop could kill someone, why are you researching them?” Qu Qi exploded after remaining silent, bursting into a roar.

”Relax, this thing requires absorbing Inner Qi to trigger its potent toxicity, so it’s completely ineffective on ordinary people without Inner Qi.” Saying this, Hua Tuo casually gulped a significant amount of the so-called virus capable of killing Inner Qi Manifestation, then wiped his mouth, ”Tastes pretty good, too!”

”...” Qu Qi felt utterly exhausted; he had nothing left to say. It was best to stay far away from such dangerous places.

”Of course, for people like us, it is toxic, actually rather exceptionally toxic, but it doesn’t matter much to the two of us,” Zhang Zhongjing laughed and said.

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