Story 10 - The Spy Who Rocked Too Hard (27🎸)
Before I solved the side effects of the Beast Blood Contract, I needed to get the baths prescription. Fortunately, there was a convenient poison master outside the room who knew it.
I waited for Little Spring to return to looking like his 13-year-old disguise only with white hair and husky-like ears on top of his head. Once he nodded to that he was ready, I stord out of the bathing room and right into Teasing Mouse. She bounced off and sprawled onto the tiled floor.
I lood over her and picked her up using spiritual energy. While she was hanging there, wide-eyed and forced to listen to , this seed like a good position for a necessary lecture. Especially since I couldnt let her stupidity go after I had just brought the kid back from the brink of fucking death.
Let ask you a question.
Y-youre very close.
Is your head completely empty?
No! She hiccuped and struggled. It was my fault that Verdant Spring went to the bath, but him dying wasnt! Poison Master Swift Hands explained it to .
I closed my eyes for a second so I didnt punch more brain cells out of her head. That would have the opposite effect I was going for. Listen up, you dumb little shit.
Hey
In the future, before you suggest that soone goes through with a bath like this, you better make sure their cultivation base is compatible with it. You better think before doing anything and everything from now on, or else youll end up murdering soone.
It was an accident!
Do you think accidental murder doesnt give you negative karma? No wonder she fucking failed her tribulation in my last life. Too many people died because of her dumb ass.
Her lip trembled.
Swift Hands used his own spiritual energy to pull her away from . How dare you bully Little Teasing Mouse!
He hid her behind him and she peaked out at .
N-no. Its okay. She wiped her eyes. I understand. After all, Junior Linlin and Verdant Spring were f-friends.
Little Spring must have taken his sweet ti getting Xiao Bai because he finally left the room with a very confused expression on his face.
Swift Hands and Teasing Mouse froze. Youre alive?!
They finally noticed?
The girl stopped crying and jumped over as if she were going to hug the kid. I used my spiritual energy to grab her and move her next to the poison master.
I dont care how happy you are that Verdant Spring is healthy. Youre not tackling soone who almost died a few minutes ago. Didnt I just tell you to use your brain?
I thought that was reasonable advice, but the poison masters face turned red with anger, and pulled the girl behind him.
I couldnt help rolling my eyes. A bit of scolding wont hurt her. If anything, everybody being overprotective is preventing her from learning.
He glared at . Little Teasing Mouse absorbs things at her own pace.
That was just him calling her dumb using different semantics. Fine, whatever you say. But you need to set things right.
?!
Your ssed up bath hurt my Senior. Take responsibility and tell us the ingredients.
Ha! I didnt ss anything up. The bath was perfect. It was Junior Verdant Spring who was incompatible with it. Thats not my problem.
This fucker. If we have the ingredients, we can cure his side effects. Giving us that information is the very least you could do.
He sneered. I wont provide any information to a bully like you!
Fuck.
Little Spring stepped forward, looking adorable. Senior, can you please give it to us? Junior Linlin really has a good chance at solving the baths side effects. She could help the whole sect!
He huffed and turned his head. If those side effects could be solved, our genius poison masters would have done it by now. Besides, she made Little Teasing Mouse cry.
The kid and I shared a look. Apparently, we both couldnt believe how unreasonable this guy was being.
There was no getting through to him. Unfortunately, people being unreasonable assholes to the universes protagonist couldnt be helped. This was a Xianxia, after all.
You know what? Im done here. There are other poison masters I can turn to. Ones who hadnt turned braindead due to the little girls black hole of adoration.
In fact, it was about ti I t up with Winter Fox.
***
The poison master had just finished answering all of his students questions after a lecture when I arrived.
Junior Linlin! I have the prescription you requested. He pulled out a jade slip and handed it to .
I put it near my temple and reviewed the information. Curing my students poison body would be very easy now that I had the proportions mapped out.
We also caught the one responsible for harming our poison body cultivators. But its a little more complicated than catching this one disciple.
I narrowed my eyes at Winter Fox. How so?
He claims that he was only doing what soone ordered him to, but he cant rember the person who did it.
Do you think its the demonic cult?
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He grimaced. If it is, then our sect has a bigger problem than this little incident.
If the demonic cultivators had infiltrated this place, then that might give the righteous sects an excuse to flatten the whole mountain range.
Then again, it could also be an orthodox infiltrator trying to destabilize this place from the ground up.
As much as the righteous sects pretended like they were moral and above dirty dealings, there were plenty who did things that were almost as bad as the demonic cultivators... which made things really awkward when explaining that our path was the best. They made us orthodox cultivators look like narcissistic assholes and hypocrites.
But that was also classic for a Xianxia. The original author really hit all the cliches with a broad stick.
If you keep looking, Im sure youll figure it out.
He nodded. We hate the demonic faction more than those orthodox pricks do. You can trust us to rip any of those bastards to shreds if we find them. He made a gripping motion with his hands as if he were viciously imagining murdering swaths of demonic cultivators by wringing their necks.
Actually, Senior Winter Fox, I have one more question.
The ears on top of his head swiveled to focus on . What is it?
Where can I learn how to concoct a Beast Blood Contract Bath?
He opened his mouth, then closed it.
Junior Linlin. The recipe for that bath is a closely guarded secret. Youd have to accomplish a ritorious service to the sect in order to have even a few of the ingredients entrusted to you.
Then how the fuck was I supposed to cure Littles Springs side effects?
But you have helped with this incident! So I can find a way to get you the recipe. However, you wont be able to concoct it without a master to teach you how.
I think youre underestimating my skills.
He smiled as if he were humoring . Im sure I am... what do you want it for? Are you considering contracting with a beast?
? Contract with a beast? Ha! I was already lucky that I didnt get mauled daily. A contracted beast might hurt itself just to harm .
No. Im going to solve the side effects of the bath, but in order to do that, I need to know the original ingredient list.
His mouth twitched. I dont think you realize that fixing the contract bath is impossible. Our poison masters have spent lifetis trying to fix it, and theyve accomplished very little. And were not any less good at alchemy than those guild brats.
True, but Im better.
He tapped his chin. Im not convinced... But I might be if you can help . I have an issue Ive been struggling with for the past few years. If you tell how to resolve it, Ill not only tell you the recipe and teach you how we concoct the bath, but I will provide two dozen batches of ingredients for you to practice with.
This was like taking a trapped rabbit from a fox.
I accept! Explain what your issues are.
His eyebrows raised as if he was surprised I actually agreed. There is a very elegant poison called the Feather Growth pill. Its a non-lethal attack-type poison that is broken and scattered on your enemy. Wherever it touches, it causes extre itching. And if it isnt imdiately detoxified, then it will cause the victim to grow feathers. Once the feathers fall out, the poison will be gone from their body.
That sounded like a useful poison for distracting enemies or bystanders.
Alright. Show how you concoct it.
He pulled out the ingredients and prepared his cauldron. While this was the first ti Id seen soone concoct this pill, I could already tell from using divine sense on the poisonous plants he carefully placed on the clean table how it was designed.
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Just before he finished adding the last plant, the 10,000 Spines Cactus, the glowing solution fizzled out. There it was, the final mistake.
He gestured to the cauldron, then waved his hand to remove the failed liquid.
I have seen others concoct this poison, but I cant seem to get it right.
I see several issues already.
He nodded.
I walked over to one of the cherry pits, picked it up and broke it in half, exposing its smooth fuschia interior.
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