Joy of Life: The Mei Family's Son Grows Up

Chapter 57 Return to Beijing and Drug Testing

The sword body suddenly came into contact with the stone with a crisp sound, a white mark appeared at the intersection, and a slight gap appeared on the sword body.

As long as it’s hard enough, Mei Chengan nodded with satisfaction.

The sword was infused with true energy, and the powerful true energy caused the sword to tremble violently, emitting a continuous buzzing sound.

Tsk, this sword is not quite good enough.

Mei Cheng'an held the sword and chopped at the stone again. This time it went incredibly smoothly. The sword cut the stone neatly into two halves like cutting tofu.

Mei Cheng'an walked forward, squatted down and touched it. The cut surface was extremely smooth and slippery to the touch, and felt good.

He sheathed the sword and threw it back casually. Hongshu reached out to catch it. The moment the sword came into his hand, he felt a huge force coming at him. He couldn't help but take half a step back to get rid of the force.

Mei Cheng'an stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, then changed to a stone that was as high as his knees. He poured his true energy into his palms and lightly slapped the stone from top to bottom.

The moment his palm touched the stone, an invisible air wave passed over the stone to the ground and then spread out 360 degrees in all directions, sweeping around the stone like a wave, forming a circular dust-free zone with the stone as the center point.

Mei Cheng'an looked at the stone carefully. Although the scene seemed so powerful, the stone at the center was completely intact. There was only a palm print less than one centimeter deep on it.

Mei Chengan scratched his head.

The power of this high-density true qi didn't seem to be as strong as he had imagined. He had imagined it would break and scatter.

But on second thought, he had only just entered the ninth level, and his true qi did not have any overbearing properties. It would be strange if it could really split mountains and rocks.

After figuring this out, Mei Cheng'an stopped worrying about it and went to another place to test out his hidden weapons.

Not long after he left, the stone that he had slapped suddenly developed a tiny crack in the center of his palm print, and the crack quickly expanded and extended all the way down to the ground. The two halves of the stone were only slightly misaligned, and if you didn't look closely, they were still a whole.

……

Mei Cheng'an knew nothing about all this. At this moment, all his attention was focused on the silver needle between his fingers.

The target was a small stone on top of a large stone as tall as a person, ten feet away. He had placed sweet potatoes on the small stone, and it was only the size of a fist.

Mei Cheng'an held his breath and concentrated, then used the hidden weapon technique he had figured out to throw out the silver needle on his fingertips. Only a barely audible popping sound was heard, and the fist-sized stone did not move at all.

I walked closer, picked up the stone and took a look. I saw a pinhole-sized hole in the center of the stone.

Mei Chengan nodded with satisfaction, almost thinking that he had missed.

Then he asked Hongshu to place a stone of similar size again. This time he walked to twelve feet away and threw it again, but it hit nothing.

Fifteen feet, empty.

Eighteen feet, the hole was a little bigger and the stone moved slightly.

At nineteen feet, the hole became much larger and the stone fell in.

Twenty feet away, there was no hole, only a shallow pit, and the stone was knocked away.

Mei Cheng'an put away the silver needle, thoughtfully.

The limit is sixty-six meters, and it feels... just average.

Yan Xiaoyi's arrow shooting range is at least several hundred meters. Once he shot at a tree across the lake in Taiping Villa, and another time he sat on the roof of the main hall in the Imperial Palace and shot at the city wall. The distances seemed very far.

Even though the other person is two levels higher than him and has the help of a bow and arrow, the difference shouldn't be that big.

Perhaps this is the awesomeness of a ninth-grade archer?
The next step was to practice swordplay. His swordplay was already incredibly fast, and now that he had reached the ninth level, his spiritual awareness, the amount of true Qi, the quality of true Qi, his body movement speed, and so on had all improved in almost all aspects. His swordplay was so superb that it became as fast as a shadow.

The maids stared at him intently, but couldn't see clearly any of the young master's movements.

Mei Cheng'an practiced it twice alone and then stopped.

The next step is to practice sparring with the maids. This time, there will be no need for fast swords or hidden weapons. It will be a one-on-four fight with bare hands. It mainly depends on your reaction ability.

Five figures quickly entangled with each other. Mei Chengan was confused at the beginning. The main reason was that he did not control his surging strength well enough and was not precise enough.

To give a simple example, it's like when he was facing a sword, he wanted to dodge to the left, but he couldn't control his body well, and the distance he dodged was too long, so he hit the sword coming from the left, so he could only roll over to dodge, looking very embarrassed.

This situation happened repeatedly at the beginning. As the battle progressed, Mei Chengan finally figured out some tricks and his ability to control his body became stronger and stronger.

Then the four maids were not good enough. Even though they tried their best, they could only make the young master a little embarrassed at the beginning, and later they couldn't even touch the corner of his clothes.

In fact, Mei Cheng'an also took advantage of a lot. With the abilities of the four maids, the power of the four swords was not weak. It's just that he knew the swords too well, and he was fast, so he could easily find the gaps between the four people to dodge.

Mei Chengan moved and jumped out of the battle group.

"Okay."

Upon hearing the sound, several maids stopped decisively, scattered, put away their swords, stood up, and adjusted their breathing.

Mei Cheng'an felt that he had almost completed all the tests that could be conducted, so there was no need to practice sparring with the maids on quick swords and hidden weapons. He couldn't measure his own strength, and he was worried about hurting them.

"Let's go back to Kyoto."

When the few of them were going down the mountain, Mei Cheng'an always felt that something was missing. He looked around and found a big tree that was as thick as an adult could hug. Without hesitation, he used his internal energy to slap the tree. The tree broke and fell to the other side with a muffled sound. The startled birds scattered and cried miserably.

I'm sorry, Ah Shu. If I'm reborn as a tree in my next life, I'd better go to another mountain.

How can you go out without showing off your destructive power? Now you can do that.

Under the strange looks of the maids, Mei Cheng'an led the way down the mountain with satisfaction, and several of them rode their horses back to Kyoto.

When they were queuing to enter the city, the unpleasant incident of being cut off from the way happened again. The soldiers guarding the city again ignored it. This time, the one who cut off the way was a girl with a melon-seed face, a high nose bridge, and a heroic look. She was about thirteen or fourteen years old. She had a bow and quiver hanging on her back, as well as some prey such as pheasants and rabbits.

Mei Cheng'an was so confused. What kind of luck did he have? The chance of being cut off was too high. This had happened several times. He was convinced.

He had seen this girl who had stolen his way once before. Last time, she was still a little girl and was held in the arms of Ye Zhong, the garrison commander of Kyoto, and she had stolen his way once. This time, she had grown into a grown-up girl. She was Ye Ling'er.

After he traveled through time and saw his father Mei Zhili, he realized that he was in a drama. Then the question is, some actors in the two seasons are different, so which season's faces should this world be from?

Mei Cheng'an understood now. He didn't see Ye Ling'er clearly when he took a quick glance at her when she was little, but now he can see it. Isn't she just a younger version of Jin Chen?

Okay, this has answered some of my previous doubts, so let’s just grab it.

After entering the city, Mei Cheng'an did not go home directly, but went to a pharmacy, picked and chose and bought a large pile of common medicinal herbs, and then bought tools for grinding the herbs.

He returned to his own courtyard and went into the small kitchen to boil medicine.

What medicine should I boil?
poison.

He wanted to know why poison was ineffective after he entered the ninth level.

Of course, there are no highly toxic herbs among the medicinal herbs you buy. Don't even think about Gelsemium elegans and Strychnos nux vomica. Even if they have them, they will not sell them to you unless you come up with a specific and reasonable prescription, and they will help you boil it.

However, all medicines are poisonous to some extent. Each medicinal ingredient itself is more or less slightly toxic. He has learned a lot from the group of imperial doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau to identify medicinal ingredients, analyze pharmacology, and use the principles of mutual promotion and mutual restraint to eliminate the medicinal properties. It is easy for him to prepare a poison.

He planned to make two kinds, one for internal use, which was what he was boiling now, and the other he planned to make into powder and apply on the knife.

Internal poison and external injuries are quite different.

Of course, when doing this kind of experiment, you must not tell the maids. No matter if you are fine in the end or not, they will definitely try their best to stop you from testing the poison on themselves, and if they can't stop them, they will report you to the police.

So Mei Cheng'an didn't explain to them and directly drove all the maids out of the kitchen, not allowing them to watch there.

Mei Chengan was boiling medicine and grinding medicinal materials here.

Several maids hid far away and discussed in a low voice. They had to hide far away as the young master had very sharp ears now.

Sweet Potato worried: "What do you think the young master is going to do with those herbs? He won't tell us when we ask him."

Bluebird was puzzled: "Master, just do whatever you want. There's no need to explain it to us."

Cucumber shook his head: "Something is wrong. It's very wrong."

Green Ant frowned: "The young master must not be injured. We can't hurt him. If he is not injured, what is the point of buying these herbs?"

Bluebird: "You've already said that the young master is not injured. As long as the young master is fine, why should we care so much?"

Green Ant: "Bluebird, shut up first and don't interrupt us three from talking about business. Have you forgotten what Madam told us this morning?"

Green Ant is the big sister, so when Blue Bird said this, she shut up obediently.

Green Ant continued, "The strangest thing is that the young master actually hid it from us. The young master never hides anything from us, even when he was healing himself. What do you think?"

Hongshu nodded: "That's right, the young master has never hidden anything from us. This time he is acting out of character, there must be something wrong. What on earth is the young master going to do with these herbs?"

Cucumber: "That's right, we have to find out what medicine the young master wants to make first."

Green Ant frowned and thought for a while: "I think you are thinking in the wrong direction."

I don't understand sweet potato and cucumber.

Sweet Potato: "What's wrong? Isn't this something that must be figured out as a matter of urgency?"

Cucumber nodded in secondment.

Green Ant shook his head: "We don't know anything about medicinal herbs. Only the young master knows what he wants to do with these herbs. If he is willing to tell us, do we still need to discuss it here?"

The two looked at each other and stopped talking.

Hongshu thought for a moment and said, "How about I go find a doctor and ask him?"

(End of this chapter)