Chapter 25: The Poisonous Path: Corpse Destruction
This voice fell into Xu Qing's ears, his eyes snapped open.
He only felt his mind roaring in his shortness of breath, being able to enter the tent and listen to the lesson was something he had only dreamed of, and in his excitement at this moment he took a deep breath and made a deep bow towards the tent.
"Many thanks master!"
These four words, Xu Qing said seriously.
Xu Qing only stood up and left the tent.
On this day, he turned around without seeing Grandmaster Park's figure, but heard the sound of Grandmaster Park's criticism of the teenage boy and girl within the tent.
Not bothering with any of that, Xu Qing was already filled with intense excitement throughout his body.
When he returned to his lodgings, he immediately informed Team Lei of the matter, and Team Lei was pleasantly surprised, especially when he saw Xu Qing's happy appearance, his smile grew even more, and his heart was filled with emotion.
The reason why this child in front of him had traveled to the forbidden zone so frequently during this period of time was not told to him, but he knew that the other party was searching for that life-renewing Heavenly Fate Flower for himself.
Such an affectionate and righteous child who had saved his own life, in this cold world, how could he not cherish it, only that, as he looked at Xu Qing, who was tired every time he returned, he couldn't bear to do so.
Seeing Xu Qing happy at the moment, Lei team was also very happy, so on that day, Lei team cooked a rather sumptuous dinner for Xu Qing, during which he kept urging him to honor his teacher, to be respectful to Grandmaster Park, etc., which Xu Qing carefully memorized one by one in his heart.
Until he finished eating and returned to his room, Xu Qing's mood was still in a state of excitement.
Thinking that he would be able to go to the tent tomorrow to listen to the lesson, Xu Qing was looking forward to it and at the same time, he was tossing and turning.
In the midst of his worries, he suddenly thought of the scene when he was in the slums, with the other children, paying his first visit to the teacher.
So he opened his leather pouch and organized it, eventually taking out a newer pouch and placing most of his spirit coins in it, as well as a lot of his white dan.
In Xu Qing's perception, knowledge was priceless, and giving away all of his savings was nothing.
But he had to consider the Lei Team's side, so he kept half of it.
Only after doing this did he take a long breath and silently closed his eyes, starting to cultivate and exhale, waiting for the dawn.
This night was somewhat long for Xu Qing.
Until the early sun rose into the sky, Xu Qing rarely changed into a new piece of clothing, and washed his hands again before walking out of the room.
Just as he was about to leave, he was called by Team Lei, who never woke up early during this period of time.
After carefully instructing Xu Qing, Xu Qing nodded his head relentlessly and listened attentively, in the end, Team Lei helped Xu Qing organize his clothes and handed him a leather pouch.
"Enter the tent to listen to the lesson, you can't do it empty-handed."
"I have." Xu Qing said softly.
Team Lei glared, but seeing the insistence in Xu Qing's eyes, he put away the leather bag and went back to his room to take out a pot of wine.
"Master Park I know, likes to drink, you bring it over."
This time Xu Qing didn't refuse, after receiving the jug of wine, he left the courtyard, after walking a few steps he turned back, waved his hand at Team Lei who was standing there, ran a few quick steps and went straight to Master Park's tent.
Looking at Xu Qing's back, Team Lei smiled.
"This kid, I didn't see him this happy when the Seven Leaf Grass was distributed."
Mixing happiness and nervousness, Xu Qing arrived at the place outside the tent where he had been standing for the past month or so, he took a deep breath and knocked on the door of the tent.
"Come in."
Hearing Grandmaster Park's voice, Xu Qing looked down and checked his clothes, tugging hard on his lapel to make it look neater before slowly pushing the door open. Seeing Master Park and the teenage girls sitting there inside the tent besides the guards.
When Xu Qing looked at them, they were also looking at Xu Qing.
Compared to Grandmaster Park's calm demeanor, the expressions of the teenage girls were much richer, with the teenager known as Chen Feiyuan having a defiant face while the teenage girl, Tingyu, was mostly curious.
Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and made a deep bow to Grandmaster Park, then took out the prepared leather pouch and wine jug, following the example of what he had done in the slums, and handed them out with both hands.
Xu Qing, who did not raise his head, did not see this instant of Grandmaster Park, some more softness in his calm eyes.
Master Park didn't bother to pick up the leather pouch, but simply took the jug of wine over and took a sip in front of Xu Qing, as if it was some sort of ritual.
"Begin the lesson." Putting down the jug of wine, Grandmaster Park slowly transmitted his words.
Still auditing first, Ting Yu and Chen Feiyuan seemed to be on a par with Xu Qing, obviously having done their homework last night, their answers were crisp and clean, immediately looking at Xu Qing after answering.
Xu Qing did not look at them, but looked at Master Park, will be the other side of the audit one by one answer, very comprehensive, after Master Park nodded, opened the official course.
Xu Qing listened extremely attentively, he cherished the opportunity to enter the tent, and there wasn't the slightest bit of distraction throughout the entire process.
And Chen Feiyuan and Tingyu were likewise like this, which made Master Park's heart more or less, have some smiles.
In this way, more than ten days had passed, and Xu Qing had gotten used to listening to the lectures inside the tent, but the level of seriousness had not diminished in the slightest, and the knowledge he had gained had become more and more bountiful.
But compared to him, Chen Feiyuan reverted to his old self within a few days, and Tingyu was the only one who continued to be extremely serious in comparison to Xu Qing.
However, after the lesson, the two of them talked a bit more, but it was mostly Ting Yu curiously inquiring about life within the camp, and Xu Qing was reticent, simply answering a few sentences.
Chen Feiyuan, on the other hand, was unconvinced by Xu Qing from start to finish, and didn't speak more than a few sentences.
Xu Qing didn't care about this, he wasn't good at socializing, so he would leave for the forbidden zone as soon as possible after every class, the reason that made Xu Qing go to the forbidden zone every day, nowadays, there was the additional point of grass and trees.
Before he knew about the knowledge of grass and trees, all the flowers and trees in the forbidden zone made no difference in his eyes, and now it was different.
Xu Qing was often able to discover herbs that he knew about, and every time he made such a discovery, it would deepen his knowledge of grasses and trees by quite a bit.
However, Xu Qing also slowly realized that most of the ones in the forbidden zone were Yin and Evil poisonous herbs, and there weren't many positive-yang herbs.
That was why his research on medicinal herbs was poison-oriented from the very beginning.
As those poisonous herbs were picked by him, he also built a simple house within the small canyon to use as a pharmacy for drilling poisonous herbs.
And with his physique that could dissolve toxins, Xu Qing was very bold in his research on poisonous herbs, and after trying various matches and combinations, he finally dispensed an unknown venom.
This venom was a collection of eight types of poisonous herbs mixed in and then added snake venom, formulated with these nine substances.
The toxin contained a strong corrosion within it, and Xu Qing had tried it out, a single drop falling within the flesh and blood could cause the corpse of the experimental foreign beast to turn into blood within five breaths.
However, it would only be so fast for corpses, and for living creatures, for some unknown reason, the time would increase a lot.
Despite this, Xu Qing was already satisfied with this first venom he had concocted in his life.
He dried it into powder and named it Corpse Destroying Scatter.
As for the positive yang herbs, although they were few and far between, but with the yin and yang bipolar method, Xu Qing was still able to simply blend out some semi-finished medicinal liquid.
A small portion of it was mixed with Seven Leaf Grass, possessing some effects of suppressing heterogeneous qualities, and Xu Qing had taken it and asked Grandmaster Park if it could be combined with his prescription to have better effects on the Lei Team.
Grandmaster Park told him that apart from the Heavenly Fate Flower, the others were useless, and his prescription, too, would eventually expire.
This was indeed the case, even if the Lei team took their medicine on time every day, the weakness of their body was still visible to the naked eye, Xu Qing looked on with silence in his eyes.
Until this day, when the two of them were having their meal, Lei Team still told Xu Qing after he wanted to say something, that he felt that he was not suitable to continue staying in the scavenger camp, and was prepared to go and buy the right to reside in a nearby city in the near future.
"Kid, I know that your path will never stop at this one small camp, your future will be much further, so I won't call for you to join me in retirement."
In the instant he heard these words, Xu Qing, who was eating, made a movement, and after a long while, lowered his head, and after a long silence, asked softly.
"Are you still coming back?"
"Of course, I'll come back occasionally." Team Lei smiled and raised his hand, touching Xu Qing's head for the first time, his heart lamenting that he didn't want Xu Qing to risk his life for himself in the forbidden jungle anymore.
Xu Qing instinctively wanted to avoid it, but glanced at Lei Team and didn't move, causing Lei Team's hand to smoothly fall on his head, and between gentle strokes, Lei Team laughed.
"Besides, you can always come to see me ah."
Xu Qing sniffed and nodded heavily.
That night, Xu Qing opened his eyes many times while practicing and looked towards Team Lei's room.
This emotion was silently buried in Xu Qing's heart until a few days later, and every day, apart from going to Grandmaster Park's place to listen to the lessons, he went to the forbidden zone for more time, working hard to find the Heavenly Fate Flower.
It was just that this kind of flower, as Grandmaster Park had said, could not be found.
