The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#282 - Let's start with 100 pieces

Lu Jing nodded. He had considered using poison before and even consulted Doctor Jia about it. However, he eventually realized that randomly consuming poison wouldn't work.

Weak poisons wouldn't consume much internal energy, but truly potent poisons would be too much for his body to handle. For example, Master Huiwen of Xuankong Temple was poisoned with the "Eye媚" poison from Myriad Poisons Valley. Despite his first-rate internal energy and the protection of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill, he couldn't escape death.

So, Lu Jing abandoned that idea.

"I don't need that kind," Lu Jing said, shaking his head.

Uncontrolled internal energy is still internal energy. It would still burst his dantian, so this kind of poison is useless to Lu Jing.

"There are also some that can make your internal energy flow sluggishly. You might have ten parts of power, but you can only unleash six or seven when fighting," the girl in green continued. "However, this kind of poison is easily detected."

Lu Jing thought about it. He felt like he could use this kind of poison to slow down the flow of internal energy and resolve the endless true energy in his Ren and Du meridians.

But there was a problem. While it could slow down his internal energy recovery, it would also make it more difficult to expend internal energy.

But Lu Jing still said, "Give me some."

He'd take it first and slowly study how to use it later.

"Then there are poisons that can dissolve and neutralize internal energy. However, these poisons are rare, and besides 'Falling into Mortality', their effect on first-rate experts is limited. At most, they'll lose some internal energy. Also, once they detect it, they can easily force it out of their body with their power," the girl in green said.

"Do you have any here?" Lu Jing asked eagerly.

"I have two types of this poison on hand: one is called 'Soul Melt,' and the other is called 'Bone Erosion.'"

"Soul Melt, Bone Erosion," Lu Jing repeated, savoring the names. He looked up and said, "And the poison you mentioned that can make internal energy flow sluggishly, give me a hundred of each."

"I don't have that many," the girl in green said, almost spitting blood at Lu Jing's offer.

"Although the materials for refining these three poisons aren't as difficult to find as 'Falling into Mortality,' they're not cheap either. One pill costs at least five taels of silver. A hundred pills would be five hundred taels, and you want all three types, so that's fifteen hundred taels."

"It's okay, I can pay for it myself," Lu Jing said nonchalantly.

He was rich again now, and he still had the luck brought by the black cat. The trifling sum of fifteen hundred taels of silver didn't matter much to Lu Jing anymore.

Actually, these hundred pills were just for Lu Jing to experiment with. If it later proved that his temporary measures were truly feasible, he planned to order thousands or even tens of thousands from the girl in green, and preferably get the recipe as well.

But there was no rush now. A transaction was a two-way street. Since the girl in green had already given her price, it was now Lu Jing's turn to show some sincerity.

So he asked the girl in green, "When do you plan to start cultivating Myriad Poisons Return to the Source?"

"I've made all the preliminary preparations and am just waiting to find a protector. I can start at any time," the girl in green replied.

"Then why don't we start now?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows.

"Okay," the girl in green said simply.

Even though it was a matter of life and death, there was no hesitation or delay in her answer. This once again proved Lu Jing's previous guess: that the girl's heart had long been occupied by hatred, and she had put life and death aside.

For revenge, she was willing to pay any price.

The girl in green led Lu Jing directly into her small courtyard, then closed the courtyard door and took out a bamboo cage from the corner.

The bamboo cage contained three venomous snakes. From the patterns, they looked a bit like the silver-banded kraits from Lu Jing's previous life.

They were about three feet long, with silver ring-shaped patterns on their skin. They were originally napping in the bamboo cage, but as the girl in green picked up the cage, they seemed to be disturbed. They began to move around in the cage, raising their heads and flicking their tongues.

Seeing this, the girl in green didn't show any fear. She said to Lu Jing, "These are Silver Yama Kings. Their venom is very potent. If bitten, they can paralyze your entire body in just half an hour, and after an incense stick of time, even a god couldn't save you."

Just listening to the introduction, the three snakes in the bamboo cage seemed even more venomous than silver-banded kraits. While Lu Jing was still examining them, the girl in green had already reached into the bamboo cage.

She quickly grabbed one of the snakes. The snake, feeling threatened, naturally wouldn't be polite and immediately opened its mouth and bit the girl in green's arm.

However, just as it injected the venom from its fangs into the girl in green's blood vessels, before it could enjoy its prey, a cold light flashed, and its head was already separated from its body!

The girl in green quickly covered the bamboo cage and used a small knife to flick the snake's head off her arm. She said to the stunned Lu Jing, "Don't let the snake venom enter my heart meridian later."

"Okay," Lu Jing said, preparing to first press the girl in green's acupoints.

Seeing this, the latter quickly added, "Don't press my acupoints either. I need to start circulating my power and cultivating."

After speaking, without waiting for Lu Jing's reply, she had already sat cross-legged on the ground and adopted a breathing posture. However, her breathing posture looked a bit strange, with one palm placed on top of her head, facing upwards, and the other palm pointing diagonally downwards.

Lu Jing didn't dare to be negligent and quickly stretched out a hand, pressing it against the girl in green's back.

When his palm landed on the girl in green's back, her body trembled slightly, but it quickly returned to calm in the blink of an eye.

Lu Jing could feel the true energy in her meridians beginning to move, meeting the snake venom. However, it didn't force the snake venom out of her body. On the contrary, it seemed to be trying to guide the snake venom to flow in her meridians, as if she were cultivating.