After having his breakthrough, Han Yu was not fully stable yet. He had broken through two stages at once and was still feeling a bit uneasy.
He lay sprawled on the floor, limbs twitching occasionally from the aftershocks of his miraculous breakthrough. He stared blankly at the ceiling, trying to come to terms with the fact that he had just survived soup-based assassination and accidentally become stronger.
Li Mei, meanwhile, was vibrating with excitement. Not literally—though with her energy levels, it was always a possibility.
"This is incredible!" she exclaimed, rummaging through her notes. "That so-called dud pill clearly had latent potential, but it needed a near-death catalyst to activate. We need to test more combinations! Different poisons, alternate timings, possibly exposure to mild electrocution—"
"I'm going home," Han Yu said flatly, dragging himself to his feet like an elderly man who just fell down a spiritual staircase.
