I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

Lu Yuan said he understood, because what Oden said was indeed true.

"Secondly, there's the Sea of ​​Knowledge," Auden's voice carried a hint of excitement. "Aren't you connected to the Sea of ​​Knowledge? In the future, combined with the Sea of ​​Knowledge plan I gave you, you might be able to build an ultimate reward that allows you to travel to the Sea of ​​Knowledge on your own. This reward will be a fatal temptation for some people who are stuck between the third and fourth levels of Knowledge Transcendent, or even between the fourth and fifth levels. No Knowledge Transcendent can resist the temptation of the reward of traveling to the Sea of ​​Knowledge."

This could be a new beginning for them, or it could be death, but what is there to fear about death now that things have come to this?

But isn't this plan a blatant copy of the Forbidden Society's trump card? Isn't AM just using this trick to swindle people? Hmm, a very good plan. Here you go, this is mine. Moreover, Lu Yuan's control over the Sea of ​​Knowledge is far beyond what the Forbidden Society can match. I am a man who holds power.

Lu Yuan immediately said there was no problem.

But he really needs to study it carefully, because entering on his own and bringing others in while ensuring their safe return are two different things. AM's entry doesn't include safety. In other words, you can go in, but whether you can come out is your problem. Sigh, the lack of after-sales service is really bad.

If you can play it well, it is indeed an excellent hand, a hand that no one can refuse.

"Of course there is, and the last one is yourself," Oden continued.

"You have outstanding talent in both potion-making and inscription. If nothing unexpected happens, you can continue to advance in these two areas. If you can take it a step further, you will be a true master of inscription and potion-making. Even in my time, you would definitely be a figure of great stature."

"Furthermore, with my assistance, we can provide a lot of support for your organization, which is more than enough for the early stages. Of course, what's most important to you right now is not these things, but to hurry up and make the Dragon Blood Potion and improve your physical strength first."

Lu Yuan nodded, indicating that there was no problem.

At that moment, the gray and white text in front of Lu Yuan popped up without warning.

[Taboo Studies - Scholar: +0.1...2.2/5]

Lu Yuan paused, but then his steps faltered. His forbidden arts had actually increased again? What the hell?

He had no connection with the taboo, and neither his environmental perception nor Auden provided any feedback. In other words, his taboo studies had nothing to do with the taboo itself. But how could there be an increase if there was no connection? Lu Yuan suddenly realized something.

Wait a minute, his forbidden studies were swallowed up by the Sea of ​​Knowledge, along with the world where the Forest Seed lived. Now it's increased again. Does that mean it didn't die, but was digested? Hmm? If that's the case, then wouldn't the forbidden studies experience have a follow-up? It might just take a long time, but that's not a problem. Lu Yuan was quite pleased. He could never have too much experience; as long as he was willing to give it, that was fine. Time was no object.

"What are you so happy about?" Auden noticed Lu Yuan's smugness.

"It's nothing," Lu Yuan said, calming down and continuing forward. "I've thought about what you just said, and I think it's not a big problem. But there are still a few things that need to be resolved quickly. First, the Dragon Blood Potion. We must make the Dragon Blood Potion as quickly as possible. That's the top priority."

"Secondly, we need to hurry up and produce a large number of strange props, not only to improve the organization's rewards later, but also to improve our proficiency with props, in preparation for the research and development of large-scale strange inscription arrays later."

"And then there's the matter of how to infiltrate the Sea of ​​Knowledge. I still haven't figured out how to get someone to infiltrate and return safely. That's something I can only rely on you to do."

"Finally, I'd like to research something," Lu Yuan paused, "the possibility of using a potion to suppress berserk pathways."

Oden said that everything Lu Yuan said before was fine, until Lu Yuan's last sentence, about the possibility of suppressing the rampage potion.

Huh? A question mark gradually appeared above Oden's head.

"Are you serious? Are you sure you didn't misspoke? For example, is it a single pathway, a berserk drug research targeting only a certain pathway? If that's the case, it's quite possible. There were people in our time who specialized in similar research."

"However, considering that the backlash from each path is different, everyone's constitution is different, and the abilities gained from each path are also different, I never saw this potion appear before I died. But some things can indeed slow down the rampage of a path, but there is no such thing as stopping it. It's just a possibility, but it's specific to a particular path. So are you sure you're not mistaken?"

Lu Yuan shook his head:

"I'm not wrong, because I have the Leaf of Hope, a special material obtained from plants associated with wish-granting. It can suppress pathway runaway, but it's only enough for two or three bottles, and the raw materials are unsustainable, so I want to conduct research based on this."

"You're wasting your time using leaves associated with hope to make pathway-suppressing potions? Wouldn't it be better to use them for something else? This stuff is very effective at stabilizing pathways and alleviating hidden injuries."

Lu Yuan shook his head:

"No, in my opinion, unless I can crack the pathway stabilization potion, it's really a pipe dream for me to run a particularly large organization with my current methods."

However, Oden said with some helplessness, "Actually, all you need to know is the knowledge base. Potions and such are secondary. But if you can really make the pathway stabilizing agent, it won't just be a matter for one organization. It will be the entire empire, or even all the empires in this world, who will cooperate with you."

"Of course, cooperation is a pretense. What we really want is to arrest you and extract the prescription from your brain. You probably don't understand how terrifying the pathway stabilization potion is. To this day, no one has been able to solve it. Even if someone can barely stabilize the pathway, it's only on a small scale. But that's already incredibly precious. Many people would beg for a tiny bit of it. And you still want to make a universal pathway stabilization potion?"

"By the way, I still don't know what your second forbidden skill is. It wouldn't happen to be related to potion-making, would it?"

Lu Yuan thought for a moment, and this time he did not hide anything. He explained his abilities. His forbidden science gave him the ability to see some strange residual auras, and secondly, he could customize different potion formulas according to each person's different state. When Auden heard this, he fell silent.

The ability related to the study of the supernatural, specifically the ability to see residual eerie auras, isn't particularly strong, but the ability to provide different formulas based on each person's current state—what the heck is that? Is there really such an ability?

No wonder Lu Yuan said he wanted to develop pathway stabilizing agents. You know, what's the hardest thing about dealing with someone whose pathway has gone berserk? It's figuring out their state and direction.