Chapter 169: Alchemist Level Five
The viper was decapitated but could still bite via nerve reflex, injecting venom.
Yu Jiang, with intermediate poison resistance, wasn’t afraid but didn’t want to get bitten either; she jumped away very quickly and only went to pick up supplies after the mutated cobra stopped moving.
Snake Gallbladder is also medicine, dispels wind and dampness, detoxifies and removes prickly heat, clears heat and brightens eyes; Dampness Dispelling and Malaria Avoiding Pill requires this.
Monster-level viper has better effects.
The light screen can scan and directly decompose; for monster dropped supplies, just pick them up directly.
Spicy Strips that haven’t reached monster level require digging yourself; not all Spicy Strips’ snake gallbladders can be used—the more poisonous, the better.
After picking up supplies, continue forward.
It had just rained, and it was the hottest afternoon; entering the dense forest to search was even more uncomfortable, but the desire for supplies and completing the mission suppressed Yu Jiang’s discomfort.
As long as there are supplies, she can endure.
After running 100km, Yu Jiang focused all her energy on gathering, taking standard poisonous mushrooms that the light screen couldn’t scan out.
Hallucinogenic dead vine, take it; after gathering mutated mandragora, also dig a small branch—maybe it can be grown as a potted plant.
Curare, poison sumac—not medicinal herbs, but juice can be gathered; take them decisively, might be useful later.
Time quickly reached 5 PM.
After searching for several days, Yu Jiang finally found the last poisonous medicinal herb in the mission!
Mutated five-colored taro, its color is stunningly beautiful, with pink patterns on the leaves that faintly glow; its underground tuber is also very poisonous.
[Player has completed collection mission: Intermediate/Advanced Drug Illustrated Guide · Poisonous Drugs (50/50), obtained passive: This Blood is Poisonous!]
[Detected player’s Drug Illustrated Guide collection progress has reached 80%, and medicine refining experience fulfilled, obtained achievement ‘Alchemist Level Five’
Reward: Burn Ointment scroll*1
Advanced Hemostatic Powder scroll*1 (restores 40 health points, with 5-minute duration recovery effect, restoring 2 health points per minute)
Career Path choice: (Please consider carefully!)
A, Primary Purification Skill (randomly removes one primary debuff; Poison Master can only level up to intermediate, and debuff removal quantity halved)
B, Poison Tempering, crafting ability (you can craft potions to temper regular weapons, but tempering effect is one-time and has time limit: 36 hours)
Meaning, crafted poison applied to weapons has no permanent debuff effect, only increases damage, gone after one hit,
From completion of tempering, after 36 hours, the poison on top also expires.
Cannot be used on bound player’s weapon, only on low-level generic weapons, and can temper for others.
No need to think, Yu Jiang directly chose crafting ability; she can only go down one path to the end.
Crafting ability seems inferior to Purification Skill, but what about later? That’s healer’s skill; Yu Jiang fears it affecting her future development.
Even for the same profession, skills differ; choice is important.
The team can still support a healer, like the 188 tall guy.
Yu Jiang received the rewards, looked at the super huge mosquito that just bit her falling to the ground in near-death state, and felt like she could strut through the rainforest. Yeah right!
A group of ticks with parasite buff, starved skinny, came over; they won’t stop biting her because of the ‘This Blood is Poisonous’ passive.
This passive is mutual damage.
Yu Jiang quickly ran back to the car, speeding away for 2 li; that swarm was truly terrifying—exaggeration aside, it could really suck a grown person dry.
On the road, Yu Jiang saw an abandoned vehicle in excellent condition, door not fully closed, window half-open, trunk without pry marks.
Abandoned vehicles on parallel roads rarely look like this; regular players can’t recover vehicles, usually open the trunk and take all usable things, including clothing from dead players.
Yu Jiang took the last section of mosquito coil and got down.
No fight traces around the abandoned vehicle, too quiet; car windows had anti-peep film, couldn’t see inside clearly.
Approaching, Yu Jiang used a wooden stick to pry open the loosely closed driver’s seat car door; seeing the scene inside, she understood why this vehicle was so intact.
Inside wasn’t a car anymore, but a bug culture dish.
In such wet and stuffy heat, corpses quickly stink; surrounding bugs swarmed, parasitizing or devouring; even eyeballs had parasitic worms crawling out.
One who could drive a Level Four Vehicle wouldn’t let bugs gnaw alive; likely health value decrease caused body discomfort, or poisoned by eating something.
Yu Jiang used the wooden stick to close the car door, picked up the crowbar to smash the trunk.
After becoming a senior scavenger, her recovery efficiency was very fast; a few hits opened the trunk.
A piece of rotten wood with a few snow-white ‘tremella’ on it.
Truly poisoned to death.
No larva around the rotten wood, showing how poisonous this tremella-like fungus is.
Yu Jiang first saw this in the rainforest and noticed poisonous insects avoided it; cautiously, she didn’t approach.
This unlucky player moved things to the car; the ‘tremella’ on rotten wood was clearly harvested some; brief contact not fatal, but eating it is?
Yu Jiang put on gloves and stored the rotten wood in space grid; no special prompt or mission, and she didn’t lose health or health points.
Store first, discard if confirmed useless.
Next, Yu Jiang used the crowbar to recover the car, dismantling this poisonous insect nest.
They wanted to attack her, but her left hand holding insect repellent incense prevented approach; they could only watch Yu Jiang dismantle the vehicle to a broken frame and leave triumphantly.
Yu Jiang scouted again, rushing back to her road before nightfall, immediately sharing the good news in the team channel:
“I got the Advanced Healing Potion scroll! But corresponding medicinal herbs aren’t many, failure rate a bit high; in a bit, first check instance mission—what’s needed, I’ll craft a few first.”
Advanced Healing Potion corresponds to Alchemist Level 5-6; she just got it, success rate only 60%.
Han Jiang Gu Ying: “Captain Jiang, your progress is too fast! Other alchemists just started selling Intermediate Healing Potion not long ago, and you have advanced scroll already—too intense; I grinded monsters all the way, still short of Level Five Hunter.”
Desert Eagle: “My level up mission is almost done, but buying bullets costs too many crystal coins.”
Bullets for grinding monsters feel great, no cooldown, but expensive; otherwise, as a combat power ranking player, he’d be driving Level Four Vehicle now.
Yu Jiang smiled and said it’s not that intense—not being modest; she knew Shi Xu started grinding monsters after getting pyrethrum flowers, professional level already at 5.
Plus Cleaver Brother and several on combat power ranking, all faster than her.
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “This is the security big shots give me! With life-saving medicine, even long-range attack squishy can fight head-on!”
Yu Jiang: “I have one more thing @Kuang Kuang Kuang, I can temper your arrowheads; do you need it?”
She briefly explained tempering; Kuang Kuang Kuang’s bow is bound player’s weapon, arrows aren’t; feels perfect for arrowheads or hidden weapons like darts.
Kuang Kuang Kuang was very excited but a bit worried; last two days no batteries found, all coin-operated driving vehicles, not many crystal coins on hand.
“This is great! What price?”
Yu Jiang: “Vehicle upgrade materials fine; wait for me to research first, contact you once done.”
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “okk”
Exactly 8 PM, system notification arrived.
[Dear survivors, good evening; you’ve been in the rainforest for 7 days, surely adapted to the environment.
Survival of the fittest, adapt or not—no matter, the weak just lose survival qualification; be sure to seize this instance opportunity!]
“No matter” “Just lose survival qualification”
What a sarcastic master system.
