Poison Genius Consort

ords.
He remained silent, so Gu Qishao coldly demanded, “What, you don’t dare?”

Instead of answering, Long Feiye backed away and slapped Gu Qishao’s hand thrice.
“It’s settled!”

“What’s settled?” Han Yunxi asked hastily.

Gu Qishao changed the subject with a chuckle.
“Poison lass, you already have the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion in your hands, don’t you?”

When he had commented on the whereabouts of the poison, neither of the duo had reacted.
Both of them were more interested in the Ten-Thousand Year Blood Jade instead.
How couldn’t he guess the implications?

Han Yunxi didn’t dare to acknowledge his statement, but Long Feiye openly admitted it.
“Yes! Moreover, we’ve already finished cultivating Beauty’s Blood.” With the agreement in place, Gu Qishao would have found out about this sooner or later.
It was useless to hide the facts.

“Beauty’s Blood!” Gu Qishao was shocked.
“Long Feiye, you know quite a bit!”

“You still haven’t answered my question,” Long Feiye reminded him.

“Heheh, you need nine different ingredients to break through Perplexing Butterfly Illusion: the Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth of Ten-Thousand Poisons as well as human, corpse, and beast blood.
In addition…”

“In addition, what?” Han Yunxi asked anxiously.

A flicker of grief flitted past Gu Qishao’s eyes before he grinned.
“The ninth ingredient…even I don’t know what it is.
But it’s hard enough finding the first eight, so let’s take our time to search.”

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth of Ten-Thousand Poisons…

Han Yunxi was very surprised.
All of these things were poisons, but she’d never heard of them before.
Nor did the detox system contain any records in its massive archives.
No wonder she had so much trouble figuring out Perplexing Butterfly Illusion.

“What are these things?” asked Long Feiye with furrowed brows.
Even a specialist like Han Yunxi was lost, much less he himself.

“The first five are called the Five Elements Poisons and found in nature.
They exist within the elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
Of all creation on Earth, only these five can cause a reaction within the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion.”

At Gu Qishao’s words, Han Yunxi gave a start before pulling out a bottle filled with poison pond water from her medical pouch.
As she as she opened the lid, Gu Qishao caught a whiff of a potent toxin within.

“This is…” he asked doubtfully.
He could only tell it was toxic, but not what kind of poison laid within.

“Perplexing Butterfly Illusion, Beauty’s Blood, and…the poison pond water from Medicine Forest!” Han Yunxi proclaimed.

Last time at the black markets, she had tried mixing a bit of Perplexing Butterfly Illusion and Beauty’s Blood with the water.
It seemed to have significantly reduced the Perplexing Butterfly Illusion’s corrosive effects.

“Does that count as a reaction?” she asked.

Gu Qishao was thrilled.
“It does! Looks like the poison pond water is the Water of Ten-Thousand Poisons! Poison lass, where did you get this stuff? Didn’t that pond dry up completely?”

Long Feiye wanted to know the answer as well.
He had seen the water disappear with his own eyes.

“I…I found a chance to take some secretly by chance back then.” Han Yunxi’s gaze was evasive.
“Luckily I did manage to grab a bit, or else we’d never be able to find this water again.”

Lying to these two men was the hardest thing in the world for her.
But she didn’t know that both of them trusted her the most of all in turn.
Meanwhile, because the confrontation at the poison pond had exploded into a chaotic fight, Long Feiye had no idea whether Han Yunxi found time to take any water.
In any case, he had no reason to suspect her words.

“The Earth of Ten-Thousand Poisons is located in the poison fields of the Poison Sect’s forbidden grounds.
Supposedly the plants growing there exhibit very similar characteristics to Perplexing Butterfly Illusion.
That stuff’s easy to fine,” Gu Qishao continued.

Han Yunxi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Last time she and Long Feiye had worked hard to walk through the entire grounds before bringing back some poison orchids for research, but never thought to bring back the soil as well…

“It truly isn’t hard to find…” she murmured.

Long Feiye asked, “Gu Qishao, where did you hear of such things?”

Gu Qishao only arched his eyebrows.
“No comment.” Long Feiye hadn’t even told him how he’d gotten his hands on Perplexing Butterfly Illusion, so why was he asking so many questions? Of course, he wasn’t interested in the answer, either.
Besides Han Yunxi, his only interests were the medical academy.

Han Yunxi was wholly absorbed in the nine ingredients now.
“Human blood should be Beauty’s Blood,” she muttered to herself.
“So the corpse blood must come from the Ten-Thousand Year Old Blood Jade.”

The blood jade had been harvested from the mouth of a ten-thousand year old corpse buried in the Valley of Kings, formed from the mixture of blood qi solidifying in a rock of jade.

Gu Qishao nodded.
“And the beast blood would be the poison blood stored in the teeth of your Lil Thing.
It’ll take some time before you can harvest its poison.”

Right now, Lil Thing was probably napping in Gu Beiyue’s lap.
He had yet to recover from the last time Han Yunxi took his all-curative blood.
Although Han Yunxi had given him his fill of nourishing food, his special blood required time as well as poison plants to recover its vitality.

“If these three are all poisons from human, corpse, and beast sources, the ninth one…should be a type of poison as well, right? Human, corpse, beast…” Han Yunxi gave Gu Qishao a doubtful look.
“What other weird things exist?”

Gu Qishao coughed lightly.
“How should this old man know? Take your time to investigate!”

Long Feiye’s eyes flickered with a complex expression.
When he saw that Han Yunxi was going to keep asking, he quickly changed the topic.
“Let’s get the Ten-Thousand Year Blood Jade into our hands first.”

Lady Lianxin had tossed them a massive counter before leaving without a glance.
How were they supposed to deal with such a tempting offer?17