Chapter 635: 635 Unbelievable, one of the top ten poisons! [1 more update]
Recognizing poisons by scent is actually a fundantal skill for Taiyi dical Practitioners.
After all, many toxic substances can be avoided in advance by their scent.
If it’s simply a dicinal item, then using the sense of sll, one can indeed determine what herbs were used.
But the poison concocted by Su Ningxiang used at least fifteen different herbs.
When many herbs are mixed together, the scent changes too, whether it’s the order in which the herbs are added to the dicine furnace, or the varying ages of the herbs.
How on earth did Ye Wanlan determine that the last herb Su Ningxiang added in the concoction process was the 180-year-old Deserted Mountain Wood?!
The attendant broke out in a cold sweat, his back soaked with perspiration.
He had just heard that Ye Wanlan has recently returned to the Lin Family as a distant relative.
How could soone studying the Heavenly Music thod possibly possess such profound knowledge of pharmacology?!
Such an ability, even Su Ningxiang, who was appointed early as the next Family Head, did not have!
If Ye Wanlan were of the Su Family, then no one could possibly surpass her.
The more the attendant thought, the more fearful he beca.
Who exactly is this Ye Wanlan?!
At the peak of the attendant’s panic, Ye Wanlan slowly stood up and said to Su Xueqing, “Xueqing, the last herb is Deserted Mountain Wood; she concocted the Snow Begonia. You’ve worked hard.”
“Snow Begonia is indeed more torturous than the Seven-Heart Celestial Maiden.” Su Xueqing snorted coldly, “Ah Lan, rest assured, I will not let you experience any pain.”
Ye Wanlan nodded and turned her gaze towards the attendant with a faint smile: “Do you know what things should be said, and what should not?”
“I know!” Startled, the attendant lowered his head, his voice trembling, “I’ll do whatever Lady Xueqing says!”
Although he was just an attendant from the dicine Hall, not even a proper mber of the Su Family, it didn’t an he was ignorant.
Clearly, with Ye Wanlan’s help, Su Ningxiang was never going to be a match for Su Xueqing.
The Su Family, it seed, was about to undergo a change.
When power begins to shift, it’s ti to choose sides early.
“I believe what you say,” Ye Wanlan raised her eyebrows slightly, “After all, you know in your heart that if you don’t follow through, you won’t be leaving this alchemy room alive.”
The attendant shuddered again: “Yes, I understand everything!”
“You can take the remaining dicine,” Ye Wanlan smiled faintly.
The attendant glanced at Su Xueqing, who also nodded in approval, with a look of ecstatic gratitude: “Thank you, Miss Ye.”
One of the most fundantal principles of The Art of Sovereignty is to be both gracious and threatening.
As ti ticked away, and at the mont the incense burnt out, a bell rang.
“Clang—!”
The doors of the two alchemy rooms opened simultaneously, and four people ca out.
Su Ningxiang looked triumphant, confident in her success: “Brother Mufeng, you will be fine once you take the antidote.”
“Okay.” Su Mufeng smiled faintly, “Even if sothing happens, it’s just my fate.”
The Su Family Great Elder surveyed the room with a commanding gaze and spoke: “Ningxiang and Xueqing, hand over the poison you have concocted.”
Su Xueqing and Su Ningxiang stepped forward, each placing a pill on the table at the sa ti.
“Su Xueqing, your alchemy skills are not up to par,” Su Ningxiang glanced at the dark green pill, “The Lingxi Seven-step Powder as poison is not potent enough, neither is it a slow-acting dicine.”
Co to think of it, Su Xueqing had been wandering outside for three years without a dicine furnace, how could she have practiced alchemy?
Su Xueqing didn’t speak, placed her dicine down, and then stepped back to her original position.
Looking at the two pills, the Su Family Great Elder frowned slightly.
Of course, she could also recognize that what Su Ningxiang had concocted was Snow Begonia.
Snow Begonia had a trendous torturous power; after all, if Ye Wanlan – a mber of the Lin Family – were to die in the Su Family…
“Ye Wanlan, I ask you one last ti—” the Su Family Great Elder asked with a stern expression, “Are you really willing to be the Drug Tester?”
“Indeed,” Ye Wanlan replied calmly, stepping forward, “since the poison has been concocted, let set an example by taking it first.”
Before the Su Family Great Elder could react, the girl had already picked up the Snow Begonia refined by Su Ningxiang and placed it in her mouth.
Ye Wanlan’s movents were so quick that even the Su Family Great Elder couldn’t help but be startled.
Seeing this scene, Su Ningxiang sneered coldly.
If Ye Wanlan wanted to die, she would gladly oblige!
“Ah Lan, this is the antidote.” Su Xueqing quickly handed over the antidote as well, “You should take it quickly.”
Ye Wanlan then took the antidote.
No one in the great hall dared to speak; they even held their breath.
All eyes were focused on Ye Wanlan, waiting to see if the poison would take effect.
However, as ti ticked by, Ye Wanlan remained standing quietly in place.
Not to ntion showing signs of poison, her complexion did not change at all and remained healthily rosy.
Su Ningxiang’s smile slowly stiffened; she couldn’t believe it.
This was impossible!
While Snow Begonia wasn’t the deadliest poison, its refinent was extrely difficult. Even Su Xueqing lacked the qualifications to even touch its recipe, how could she possibly have concocted an antidote?!
Could it be that Su Xueqing’s talent has reached the level of learning without a teacher?
Su Ningxiang stared at Su Xueqing, her fingernails almost digging into her palms.
After a full 15 minutes had passed, Ye Wanlan still showed no signs of being poisoned.
This ant that Su Xueqing had indeed successfully neutralized Su Ningxiang’s poison.
“Good!” Finally, the Su Family Great Elder’s expression changed, and she looked at Su Xueqing with a deeper probing gaze, “Xueqing has succeeded; now it’s your turn, Ningxiang.”
Su Mufeng frowned and glanced at Ye Wanlan before taking the green pill as well.
“Brother Mufeng.” Su Ningxiang snapped back to reality, “The antidote.”
Even if Su Xueqing had neutralized the Snow Begonia she had refined, she could neutralize the Lingxi Seven-step Powder as well; this round would only end in a draw.
Su Mufeng smiled and swallowed the antidote.
However, just as the antidote entered his body!
Su Mufeng suddenly let out a muffled groan, his face turning deathly pale. His forehead’s veins throbbed, clearly enduring imnse pain.
But the pain was too intense, and he was forced to kneel on one knee.
In a flash, Su Mufeng imdiately raised his hand and pressed several points on his body, but the pain continued to spread, seeping into his bones.
The entire place erupted into commotion!
“Mufeng!” The Su Family Great Elder was shocked.
Was Su Mufeng actually poisoned?!
“No… this is impossible!” Su Ningxiang’s face changed dramatically. She abruptly raised her head to look at Su Xueqing, “The poison you concocted… wasn’t it the Lingxi Seven-step Powder?!”
How could her antidote be ineffective?
“Nope,” Su Xueqing spread her hands out, “Who told you that I concocted that particular poison? You didn’t feed him the antidote to the Lingxi Seven-step Powder, did you? That’s bad, you’re going to kill him!”
She had guessed that Su Ningxiang would mistake her concoction for the Lingxi Seven-step Powder, so she had deliberately created a different drug.
The toxicity of this drug might not be as strong as the Snow Begonia, but it would dramatically multiply in toxicity several dozen tis upon taking the Lingxi Seven-step Powder’s antidote.
With these words, the Su Family Elder Group and the Pharmacy Tributor were all taken aback.
From the size and color of the pills, including the herbs Su Xueqing had chosen at that ti, it could only be Lingxi Seven-step Powder!
But now, Su Mufeng had consud it, and the toxicity in his body was not neutralized; instead, it had triggered and intensified the poison’s effects.
If not for Su Mufeng’s profound inner strength and his imdiate sealing of several key acupoints, if the poison spread throughout his body without an antidote, death would be certain!
Seeing Su Mufeng’s unprecedented pale complexion, Su Ningxiang beca frantic: “Su Xueqing, what poison did you actually concoct? Bring out the antidote quickly!”
“Sorry.” Su Xueqing said with a smiling face, “I never intended to concoct the Lingxi Seven-step Powder; what I actually concocted is… the Blood-sucking Heart-shattering Pill.”
Three hundred years ago, one of the Jianghu’s top ten poisons, the Blood-sucking Heart-shattering Pill!
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