NOVGO.NET Chapter 656: 286: Potion of Separation_2
Chapter 656: Chapter 286: Potion of Separation_2
“Why?”
Yang Xiaoyun slightly raised her slender eyebrows.
“Although I claim to be a ghost, I don’t actually wish to become one.”
A laughing voice from inside the large red sedan said, “These people all died right on this line, without stepping over it; evidently, there is something peculiar about this ground. I didn’t expect that Su, the Chief of the Escort, not only has excellent martial arts skills but also excels in using poison?”
“Sharp eyes.”
Yang Xiaoyun did not answer the question but quietly glanced at the large red sedan before swiftly heading towards the main house’s drawing-room.
At the same time, the ground began to rumble. Zhen Xiaoxiao, who had already checked the entire yard, followed right behind Yang Xiaoyun.
The poison indeed was laid by Su Mo, though he is not proficient in its use.
Little Situ said that medicine and poison are closely related. Before leaving the Wu Wang Forest, in addition to giving Su Mo many precious elixirs, she also provided a fair number of poisons.
Her consideration was, although Su Mo’s martial arts are formidable and hardly anything can thwart him,
in Jianghu, no one knows when the storms will arise, and when one might encounter difficulties that even proficient martial arts can’t resolve.
Having some poison on hand as a precaution never hurts.
Su Mo deeply agreed and happily accepted them.
This night, to prevent anyone present from escaping, he first scattered a circle of deadly poison around the courtyard.
Anyone who crosses this area will surely die from the poison.
If they don’t flee, they will be killed by Yang Xiaoyun and Zhen Xiaoxiao.
Only then could it be ensured that not a single person would escape!
The large red sedan quietly remained within that circle of poison, surrounded by corpses; a gust of cold wind blew, lifting the curtain of the sedan to reveal the true body of the Ghost Lady.
Under the blood-stained red veil, there was a soft sigh.
The sound was not loud and vanished into the night wind in the blink of an eye.
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When Yang Xiaoyun and Zhen Xiaoxiao arrived at the drawing room, Ding Wugon was explaining the details of the poison:
“This poison is not fatal, but its effects are extremely drastic.
“Once poisoned, the toxic gas will travel throughout the body along with the bloodstream…initially corroding the body.
“This process is slow and will continue for a full seven days.
“The pain will gradually increase over the days; by the seventh day, the body’s meridians and flesh will have largely decayed.
“However, the remarkable thing about this poison is that even so, one will not die.
“After seven days, the flesh will replenish and the decayed meridians will be remolded.
“This process will be extremely itchy, an itching that bores into the heart and lungs, unbearable for ordinary people.
“When this medicine was tested, many people fell during this stage; during their scratching, some even gouged out their own hearts and livers.
“After that, they weren’t itchy anymore, and once dead, how could they continue to itch?
“But if one can survive these seven days…they will enter a new cycle of destruction.
“Destruction and remolding will last for four cycles.
“After four cycles, the poisoned person will completely fall into a boundary between life and death.
“They will be conscious but unable to move.
“Without eating or drinking, yet not dying, enduring pain day and night.
“Every year they will awaken once, and after twelve hours, will return to oblivion.
“Day by day, year by year, until they pass away naturally.”
At this point, Ding Wugon had nothing more to conceal and spoke openly.
Potion of separation lies precisely in these words separation from life; although alive, it is no different from being dead.
He looked up at Su Mo: “Lord Su, Chief Escort, now I dare not ask for more, only that you can give me the antidote.
“Within the first seven days of poisoning, taking the antidote can completely remove the toxicity.
“Once the poison begins to remold the limbs within the body, it’s no longer possible to remove this poison, only to suppress the pain for seven days.
“After seven days, repeat everything previously…
“If after enduring four cycles of pain, one then takes the antidote, it can only suppress the pain for a month.
“I do not wish for the poisoned person to suffer this torment day and night, requiring a monthly dose of the antidote…”
Having finished speaking, not only was Su Mo left wide-eyed and tongue-tied, but Yang Xiaoyun also had a tightly furrowed brow.
If this concoction were to be administered to herself, what should be done?
Given Su Mo’s character, he would surely not forsake himself; while opting to kill with a palm strike to spare one from suffering seems too hard to follow through.
And once compromise with Wusheng Hall is reached, Su, all his life, would be beholden to others.
With this thought, a killing intent immediately boiled in Yang Xiaoyun’s eyes.
She could die or be poisoned.
She wasn’t afraid!
But she was unwilling to be a burden to Su Mo in any way.
This group’s intention was precisely this heinous.
Not only were Su Mo and Yang Xiaoyun dismayed, but the Mountain Master of Wangxuan Mountain beside them also turned pale.
At this moment, his Dumb Acupoint had just been released, he was not wanting to speak, but upon hearing this, he couldn’t help but interject:
“Is this… Could it be… the harvest from that place… that Wusheng Hall went to explore?”
“Yes,”
Ding Wugon nodded.
Su Mo, however, was somewhat confused: “That place? Which place?”
“Da Xuan Ruins,”
Ding Wugon did not wait for the Mountain Master to speak and said: “At the center of the world, Da Xuan sits, wielding control over the world.
“Several hundred years ago, the Da Xuan Dynasty collapsed overnight.
“That region, which should have been a splendid and fertile land, has now become a perilous and bizarre place filled with miasma, dangerous at every turn.
“Wusheng Hall occupies the west of Donghuang, which in the past had several exploratory attempts but all ended without success.”