After seeing Lin Feng carefully note down the tea bud grass, the girl continued, "Besides that, there are countless poisons in this world, some are suitable for poisoning, some are suitable for fumigation, and some are suitable for poisoning. If you can't find the tea bud grass, you can go to drugstores in various places to buy poisons that are suitable for poisoning. The prices will vary depending on the efficacy and effects, so you need to weigh them yourself."
"Can I make the drugs myself?" Lin Feng still felt that self-reliance was more reliable.
"Making poisons is just like making medicines. Without a certain amount of experience, you will only end up with a mess. You should calm down and learn how to make poisons. Then, with more practice and a few more levels, you can learn how to make poisons. At that time, learning how to make poisons will be icing on the cake and you will get twice the result with half the effort. The same principle applies to your daily use of medicines and making medicines."
Lin Feng nodded. This is what is meant by "long illness makes one a good doctor". Experience needs to be accumulated. It would be more practical and prudent for him to move forward step by step.
"Now that we have the poison, I will teach you the key points of poisoning, how to add venom to a sharp weapon." The girl spoke in an orderly manner.
Lin Feng answered quickly: "Just apply it on the weapon, right?"
"Correct answer. Smearing is the most basic and roughest method of adding. Although the effect is good, it also has many disadvantages."
Lin Feng was puzzled. It was just a matter of smearing some poison on the knife. As long as the knife stabbed the enemy, the poison would take effect when the enemy's blood came into contact. It was very simple. Why would there be any disadvantages
"The biggest disadvantage of applying venom to weapons is that the venom does not last very long. As the environment changes, the venom's effective time will be shortened accordingly. For example, if a weapon is exposed to the sun, it will evaporate and decompose, and the efficacy will drop sharply. For example, if it encounters rain, snow, wind and frost, the venom on the weapon will be washed away by the rain, evaporate through the air, and freeze on the surface of the weapon. The venom will be isolated and will not be effective at all."
Lin Feng didn't expect that a seemingly simple skill of poisoning actually has so much knowledge. He really needs to study hard with an open mind. If he always thinks that he is right, he can only learn the basics.
"Since applying poison is not very effective, is there any more effective way to poison someone?"
Lin Feng felt that he was a good student, and this "good" was that he could follow the teacher's teaching ideas. If the teacher was talking about astronomy, you asked about geography, or the teacher was talking about birds, you asked about animals. No matter how talented a student was, if his thinking was so jumpy, he would not be liked by the teacher.
Lin Feng understood the situation, so he followed the girl's instructions and said, "Of course there are better ways. There are three ways to poison people more effectively: immersion, quenching, and sealing."
"Teacher, tell me which method is more effective?" Lin Feng called the girl "teacher" to show his humility and respect, and then changed into a curious baby, which greatly increased his desire to be explained. It was also the first time for him to encounter an online game that taught skills in such detail. Fortunately, it was not boring and quite innovative, which made him very interested, so he cooperated.
"This soaking method is the simplest. It is to soak the weapon to be poisoned in the poison paste. Just like brewing wine, it will drain over time and allow the poison to slowly penetrate into the weapon. The older the wine is, the more fragrant it becomes. The longer the soaking time is, the more persistent and fierce the poison will be."
Lin Feng nodded and thought, "This wine has been aged for ten or twenty years. I'm afraid that the weapons made by the immersion method are also aged like wine, right? Wouldn't such weapons become one with the poison over the long river of time, and there is no difference between you and me. It's just like human feelings. They depend on each other and grow old together. How can they be separated by a little wind and rain?"
The girl continued, "This quenching method is more complicated. Not only do you need to be proficient in poisoning, you also need to learn forging."
"I also need to learn how to forge. Do I need to make weapons?" Lin Feng realized something.
"That's right. When the metal is forged into a weapon, it is quenched with poisonous water and then hammered thousands of times. The weapon forged in this way will contain a deadly poison throughout the body, which is the origin of the quenching method."
"This quenching method looks so powerful, and the remaining sealing methods are even more unknown?" Lin Feng felt that the most powerful one must be yet to come.
"Finally, there is the Sealing Technique, which also requires proficiency in the two skills of poisoning and sealing. Weapons tempered by the Sealing Technique are almost infinitely powerful. They can poison the enemy without hurting the flesh. Anyone would be afraid of it. Well... not only humans, even ghosts and gods would be afraid of it." The girl looked frightened when she talked about this.
Lin Feng thought that the girl was talking about something so fantastical. Whether ghosts and gods were real or fake, they should be beings with great powers, like described in many mythological stories. They were not afraid of heaven or earth, they could break free from fate, and life and death could not bind them. How could they be afraid of a mere poison? Lin Feng thought that the girl was just using an exaggerated metaphor to describe the power of the Sealing Method.
"The sealing method requires the sealer to expend a large amount of mana to seal the poison in the weapon. Once the poison and the weapon are completely integrated, it can be used."
"Wait, you are talking about poison, not medicine?" Lin Feng heard the clue.
"Yes, it's poison. Some poisonous insects, poisonous beasts, poisonous monsters and entire poisonous plants are considered poisonous. Poisonous substances are living things, so they are more poisonous than dead things like poisons. The toxicity is often several times or even dozens of times higher. Therefore, sealing the poison in a weapon is the best poison. However, this is not something you can achieve for the time being. You'd better start from the basics and start by applying the venom from the branches of the tea bud grass onto this dagger." As the girl spoke, she handed over an iron dagger.
"After you have poisoned the dagger, you can take part in the skill trial. The target of the trial is the dwarf-horned deer in the forest. You should try your best to inflict more poison damage on those dwarf-horned deer, so that you can get a higher score. The final score will affect the skill level you obtain in this skill trial. After killing ten dwarf-horned deer, you will complete this skill trial. The result depends on your own performance. In short, you must cherish every deer." The girl said earnestly.
"Well... besides the proportion of poison damage, what else will affect the score?" Lin Feng did not forget the key point.
"The main scoring factor is based on the proportion of poison damage to the output, and the second main factor is based on your dodging and defense against the attacks of the dwarf deer and the time it takes to kill ten dwarf deer." The girl explained.
"Okay!" Lin Feng agreed, holding a dagger in one hand and the tea bud grass in the other, he carefully applied the poison, ready to show his skills to get a high score so that he could get a higher level of poison skill. (To be continued)