The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#442 - Employment miracle

Before today, Chen Hanqing had never seen anyone consume medicine so fiercely.

After secretly observing him for a while, he could now tentatively confirm that Lu Jing possessed three different kinds of pills.

And for the next five hours, Lu Jing's mouth basically didn't stop, as he alternately put these three kinds of pills into his mouth.

Among them, the yellowish one, the most plump in shape, and as big as a thumb, he ate the most, at least a dozen or twenty.

Even the cheapest ones would cost dozens of taels of silver per dose.

Anyway, Chen Hanqing knew he couldn't afford them.

Those who could afford them were either core disciples from top sects, who would have pills distributed to them for free by their sect, or those with very wealthy families who could buy medicine and refine it themselves, or directly purchase it from their sect.

But even so, they would only take one or two doses of medicine per day at most.

Firstly, there was the issue of expense, and secondly, the absorption of the medicinal power also required a process.

Most people could only absorb one dose of pills a day, and even for those powerful pills, it would take several days of circulating energy to fully absorb the medicinal power within.

It was very rare to see someone like Lu Jing eating pills like sunflower seeds.

Chen Hanqing felt his mouth was dry, and his heart was racing.

He seemed to have found the reason why Lu Jing was able to cultivate to become a first-rate expert at such a young age and be ranked on the Heavenly Pivot List!

You should know that recently, there has been a lot of debate in the martial world about this matter, especially considering that Lu Jing was cultivating the most common Little Diamond Strength.

How he cultivated to such a terrifying state has always been a subject of much discussion, with all sorts of guesses emerging, but until today, even though the rumors were flying everywhere, no one could come up with any substantial evidence.

It wasn't until Chen Hanqing used the excuse of coming to work to approach Lu Jing in a legitimate manner, and then took the opportunity to spy on him when the latter was mentally relaxed, that he finally caught a glimpse of the truth.

A major discovery! This is a veritable major discovery!

Chen Hanqing's hands, which were digging ginseng, couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

He was probably the first person in the martial world to discover that Lu Jing's terrifying internal strength was actually cultivated by taking medicine!

The question now was where did Lu Jing get so much money to buy medicine and refine pills, and how did he solve the problem of difficult absorption of medicinal power?

As for the former, Chen Hanqing could find some answers from this ginseng field in front of him.

Even though he didn't know much about ginseng cultivation, he could see that the quality of this batch of ginseng that Lu Jing asked him to dig was very good.

And this was probably related to Lu Jing's planting techniques.

After all, people usually try to prevent weeds from growing in their medicinal fields, and once they find weeds, they usually clear them away as soon as possible, but Lu Jing did the opposite.

Chen Hanqing estimated that the key to planting ginseng lay in this, and for him, who was also short of money, he had almost immediately made up his mind that he must do a good job next, so that Lu Jing couldn't find any fault with him, so that he could stay here all the time and try to learn Lu Jing's ginseng planting techniques.

When he became a master one day, he could kick Lu Jing away and work on his own.

Imagining the ginseng plants turning into piles of silver, and also Lu Jing's regretful and astonished expression, Chen Hanqing couldn't help but feel a burst of secret satisfaction in his heart.

He was now more and more able to understand why Wen Xiaoqian advised him to lurk by Lu Jing's side, and at the same time, he was ashamed of his previous narrow-mindedness.

Chen Hanqing had even made up his mind that even if Lu Jing humiliated him in person, he would no longer leave in anger, but would choose to endure humiliation and bear the burden, slowly accumulating his own strength, waiting for the day to soar into the sky and repay the other party for today's humiliation many times over.

And apart from money, what Chen Hanqing was most concerned about was how Lu Jing solved the problem of difficult absorption of medicinal power.

Regarding this question, Chen Hanqing now had several guesses.

One was that Lu Jing had obtained some very powerful pill formula that could allow the medicinal power in the pill to be fully absorbed in a very short period of time.

If that was the case, then the value of this pill formula would probably be above any magical skill or unique technique.

Apart from that, there was also the possibility that Lu Jing himself cultivated some unorthodox martial art that could accelerate the dissolution of medicinal power, or that he had some strange object in this regard.

So what Chen Hanqing had to do next was to figure out which method Lu Jing was using and whether he could learn from it for his own use.

Internal strength cultivation had always been a weakness for Chen Hanqing.

His martial arts aptitude was far inferior to his cultivation aptitude.

Even though he had just stepped into the second-rate realm, he still couldn't compare with the proud sons of heaven in those top sects, let alone Lu Jing.

If he could quickly make up for this shortcoming through other means, then Chen Hanqing would not only have full confidence to defeat Lu Jing, but even surpass Yan Yun and become the number one person among the younger generation, although he was actually a bit old.

The more Chen Hanqing thought about it, the more eager he became.

Unconsciously, his movements became more and more daring, and he even forgot to pretend, and stared straight at Lu Jing.

As a result, he happened to catch Lu Jing finishing testing the effects of the three kinds of pills, and the moment he opened his eyes, he felt a burning gaze.

Lu Jing looked back, and then saw the panic on Chen Hanqing's face.

He was worried that Lu Jing would see through his true intentions, and hurriedly looked away.

But then he felt that this would confirm that he had a guilty conscience, so he raised his head again and looked directly at Lu Jing.

Chen Hanqing was very apprehensive, and quickly calculated in his heart how to explain what had just happened.

But unexpectedly, Lu Jing didn't care at all.

He had already raised his head and looked at the sky again, and then said, "Ah, is it already this time? Why didn't you remind me."

"Remind you of what?"

"To eat dinner."

Lu Jing said as he looked at the bamboo basket next to Chen Hanqing, and found that it was already filled with sixty or seventy ginseng plants.

This progress far exceeded Lu Jing's expectations.

He originally thought that it would not be easy to dig out fifty plants on the first day, but he didn't expect Chen Hanqing to be so efficient.

Looking at Chen Hanqing's hands, legs, and clothes covered with mud, and even his forehead with a lot, probably left when wiping sweat, Lu Jing knew that Chen Hanqing must not have been lazy during this period.

And considering the relationship between the two, Lu Jing was willing to call it a miracle of harmonious labor-management relations!

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